Girl, 9 delivers own baby sister

 Alyssa Meza is not even 10, but she has proved to
her mother that she can handle a crisis. The 9-year-old has at least won the unofficial title of
"Best Older Sister" this week when she delivered
her baby sister after her mother went into labor. "She said she felt the baby coming out, and I told
her to push the baby out and I'll catch the baby,"
Alyssa told ABC Chicago station WLS-TV of helping her mother through labor. "She got scared, and I
caught the baby, grabbed the towel and wrapped her
around." Marathon Mom Finishes Race, Delivers Baby Alyssa also unraveled the umbilical cord wrapped
around her sister's neck, an important step she said
she learned about after watching a medical TV
show. "I had to unwrap it a little, and I ran next door to
grab my neighbor because the baby was a little
purple," she told WLS-TV. Both Alyssa's mother, Monique Meza, and the baby
were taken to the hospital after a neighbor called
911. Both mother and baby returned home on New
Year's Day. With a knack for acting calmly and quickly in a
crisis, Alyssa said she hoped to become a
paramedic someday, but her mother is already "very
proud of her." "I expected it from her, but not as much maturity
that she has shown me, at her age, very mature,"
Monique Meza told WLS-TV. "I know she has a
bright future ahead of her."