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Two cops helped a 35-year-old woman deliver her baby boy inside a car in Queens Saturday afternoon.

Police got a call at 4:15 p.m. about a woman in labor on the Long Island Expressway and Kissena Boulevard. Officer Anthony Barton canvassed the area and found a blue Subaru on the expressway’s service road at Francis Lewis Boulevard. The driver, the baby’s father, was flailing his arms to get Barton’s attention, cops said.

When Barton approached the car, he saw that the woman sitting on the front passenger side was in labor, with the baby’s head already crowning.

Barton radioed another Highway Unit 3 officer, Michael Pyzikiewicz, a paramedic since 1997, who gave him advice — make sure that the woman is lying in a flat position, keep the baby warm and clear the fluids from the baby’s mouth.

Barton reclined the woman’s seat, delivered the baby and swaddled him in a blanket that was in the car. He then turned the car’s heat up and began to clear fluid from the newborn’s mouth until Pyzikiewicz arrived and took over.

Pyzikiewicz clamped the infant’s umbilical cord while EMS workers, who arrived on scene, cut it.

EMS carried the baby into an ambulance while the two cops helped his mother onto the stretcher. Both were taken to Long Island Jewish Medical Center. The father accompanied them on the ambulance.

Both the mother and baby Josiah, who weighed in at seven pounds and five ounces, are doing well.

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