SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) - A toddler who jumped on a bed and bounced out a second-story window
was saved Friday by his mother, who leaped behind him, caught his foot and
lowered him safely to his grandmother who was having a smoke on the porch
below, police said.
The mother was just getting out of
the shower when she saw the 14-month-old boy, who had been jumping on the bed,
trip on a pillow and fly out the half-open window, Police Communications
Director Monique Cotton said.
The mother smashed through the
window and caught him by a foot as his head bounced on a small roof overhanging
the front porch.
The momentum took them both out the
window to the porch overhang. The mother was able to lower the baby to the
grandmother just as his shoe came off in her hand, police said.
The grandmother heard the breaking
glass and was in the right place at the right time to catch the baby before the
mother fell into some bushes. She was taken to a hospital for treatment of cuts
and a shoulder injury, Cotton said.
"The baby actually did
fall," Cotton said. "Grandma caught him and mom fell in the bushes
nearby. She's pretty scraped up."
The baby also was taken to the
hospital with grandma to be checked out.
"The baby is going to be fine,"
Cotton said
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