It was a sight that jarred motorists on a busy Florida expressway.
Westbound traffic suddenly came to a standstill around 2:30pm on Thursday and a woman sprang from her car, holding a baby, screaming for help.
Pamela Rauseo, 37, quickly got that help for her five-month-old nephew, little Sebastian de la Cruz, who was turning blue. Motorists stuck in traffic just east of 57th Avenue swung into action.
Lucila Godoy, 34, left her three-year-old son in her car to help Rauseo perform CPR on the unconscious infant, who she said was born prematurely and had respiratory issues.
Miami Herald photographer Al Diaz, stopped right behind Rauseo, jumped out of his car.
"I heard screaming," he said. He saw a woman pop out of the car in front of him "screaming that the baby can't breathe".
Diaz quickly jogged through traffic lanes to summon more help and found Sweetwater police Officer Amauris Bastidas, who ran to the scene and took over CPR for Godoy, performing chest pumps while Rauseo breathed into the baby's mouth.
"I lifted him up in the air and moved him up and down," Bastidas said.
"He started breathing and crying. Then he started not breathing again."
They frantically started CPR again and got the baby breathing. By that time, more help had arrived.
Captain Anthony Trim and Lieutenant Alvaro Tonanez with Miami-Dade Fire Rescue's hazardous materials unit - also stuck in traffic - jumped out of their separate cars. They were returning from a meeting and happened to hear the emergency call over the radio.
Trim and Tonanez ran up and found Sebastian breathing - but barely.
"The aunt gave him the baby," Trim said of Tonanez. "He did a quick check and made sure the baby's airway was open."
Miami Fire Rescue arrived moments later and rushed Sebastian to Jackson Memorial Hospital's pediatrics unit.
The baby was listed in stable condition on Thursday evening, a hospital spokeswoman said.
