Because of the fast response of a Glynn County police officer, Christina and Michael Maury of Darien are able to cradle their 3-week-old infant in their arms.

And the child’s parents are more than grateful.

“If it had not been for Officer Kevin Jones and the Glynn County fire paramedics, I don’t think my baby would be here today,” said Michael Maury on Monday.

“I could give those people everything I own today and still feel like I owe them more.”

The Maury Family was bringing Connor to see a pediatrician in Brunswick around 10 a.m. last Wednesday when the infant, who had been born seven-weeks premature, suddenly stopped breathing.

They were driving south on Interstate 95 when Michael Maury, who was sitting in the back seat with his son, noticed that the baby was having breathing difficulties.

“He started to turn blue and black, and when I started feeling for his breath I didn’t feel any air,” he said. “At this time, I started noticing gray and purple dots on his hands, neck and arms, and when I pulled his blanket off of him, he felt cold to the touch.”

Maury said he told Christina, who was driving, to pull over to the side of the road.

The panicked family came to a standstill on the off-ramp of Exit 38, where they dialed 911.

Maury said Jones, who was on patrol, was there in just a matter of seconds.

“It was the most incredible response I have ever seen in my life,” Maury said.

A probation supervisor, Maury has seen a lot of officers and paramedics in action.

“I don’t know how (Kevin Jones) didn’t flip his car over, the way he came through the median to help us,” he said.

Jones gave the baby three short, rapid breaths while the worried father held the infant in his arms. Immediately, the child began to take several deep breaths and his normal body color began to return, according to the police report.

Jones then stepped into oncoming traffic and stopped a a stream of cars so that an ambulance could pull up to the scene.

The baby was rushed to the emergency room of the Brunswick hospital of the Southeast Georgia Medical Center.

Jones involvement didn’t end on the side of the highway.

“Kevin showed up at the hospital with us and put his arm around me, and said he had to come back to the hospital just to see how the baby was doing,” Maury said.

Maury said Jones has asked to keep him informed of the infant’s progress.

Since the incident, Connor has been under the care of physicians at Wolfson Children's Hospital in Jacksonville.

“The doctors are still running tests on him, but they think it may be sleep apnea,” Maury said.

Sleep apnea is a sleeping disorder characterized by pauses in breathing during sleep.

Glynn County Chief of Police Matt Doering said he will present Jones with a special life-saving medal award at the Glynn County Commission meeting on Nov. 15.

“It is one example, of many, that occurs daily in which an officer can be in the position to help others, which is much of what we do other than simply enforcing the law,” Doering said.

“It really sets an example that we are out there to help people.”