Faith and Jabari Sanders sprang into action when they heard their mother, Alana, scream as she went into labor on March 9. Alana instructed 11-year-old Faith to call their father, Geoffrey, and 9-year-old Jabari to dial 911.
But she couldn't wait for paramedics and gave birth to a 9 pound, 4 ounce boy on the bathroom floor. A dispatcher instructed the kids to get towels and carefully tie the snapped umbilical cord to prevent their brother, Joseph, from losing blood.
Paramedics soon arrived and took 36-year-old Alana Sanders and Joseph to Saint Rose Hospital in Hayward, where the boy received a clean bill of health.
