A calm voice helps bring a baby into the world

(Belmont Police Department)

By Globe Staff

Nine days after being born in a bathtub, Sinjin Scozzaro visited the Belmont Police Department yesterday to personally thank the dispatcher who calmly talked his parents through the delivery.

A dramatic audio recording released by the Belmont police documents the birth on Sept. 16 at 9:30 a.m.

In the recording, 911 supervisor Ted Pendergast can be heard advising Gian Scozzaro to get some clean towels and blankets. Scozzaro tells him the baby's head is already crowning and the baby is coming out.

"You want to make sure you catch him. Just guide him out very carefully," says Pendergast.

"I've got him. I've got him, I've got him," Scozzaro says. "OK, he's coming out, he's coming out."

Then a few seconds later, he says, "He's out. ... Oh, my God."

“Hi, sweetie,” the mother, Alison Faulconer, can be heard saying in the background.

A few seconds later, the baby begins howling.

“There you go, excellent,” says Pendergast. “Very good, that’s a good sound.”

A minute or two later, emergency personnel arrive at the door of the Beech Street home.

"When I listened to it, it was tremendous," said Chief Richard J. McLaughlin.

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