Why This Store Clerk's Quick Thinking Saved a Baby During a Mom's Moment of Crisis

What would you do if you were talking to a mom holding her baby and you all of a sudden noticed her eyes glaze over? We hope you'd react as this convenience-store clerk did the moment a young mother began having a seizure.

As evident by startling surveillance video, the mom, named Jessica, approached the checkout counter, baby on hip, to buy a soda. Not long after she approached, Rebecca Montano, the cashier, noticed that something about her wasn't quite right.

"I was talking to the baby and [the woman] had a glazed look on her face," Montano told Colorado's 9News of the incident that took place this past Sunday. "I wasn't sure, I felt uneasy about it. I was asking her, 'Is everything OK?' I grabbed the baby's arm and she started to sway . . . she wouldn't answer me. She was just lost in space, so I thought I better take the baby, something doesn't feel right. And then right there she started to fall and I wasn't sure still exactly what was going on, so I yelled at [a nearby] customer that was in the store [for help]. She fell, I came back, grabbed the phone, and called 911."

Turns out, Jessica had been having seizures since she was 9 years old. Both the mother and baby girl are doing fine thanks to Montano's quick thinking.

"I think being a mother, being a grandmother, my first instinct was the baby," Montano said. "I just wanted to save the baby from getting hurt, if she would've fallen with the baby in her arms, who knows where that baby would've landed?"