OLIVE BRANCH — A 2-year-old in north Mississippi has done something few toddlers can: He helped his mother give birth to his brother.

Bobbye Favazza tells The Commercial Appeal she went into labor this past Friday and gave birth on the family's living room couch in Olive Branch.

She says her toddler, Jeremiha Taylor, got her a towel and caught the baby before firefighters arrived to cut the umbilical cord.

Favazza gave birth to a 7-pound, 4-ounce baby boy, Kamron Taylor.

She had been scheduled for a cesarian section on Dec. 6.

City emergency services supervisor, Greg Mynatt, says the 911 call about Favazza was probably the third this year about a woman in labor, but usually the mother makes it to the hospital before delivery.