Hero NYPD cop recalls heart-pounding moment he saved choking baby on side of highway: Shes gonna be here for Christmas

Thanks to this cop, her dad can breathe easy.The heroic detective who saved a choking baby on a Bronx highway recalled the pulse-pounding moment the tot coughed and gasped for air — saying he’s now thrilled that “she’s gonna be here for Christmas.”Det.First Grade Michael Greaney, 40  — a dad of two toddlers —  was heading to work at 8:45 a.m.

Wednesday when he spotted a BMW speeding down the shoulder of the Bronx River Parkway, he told The Post Friday.“I followed the vehicle, turned my lights on,” he said.“[The dad] rolled down his window and yelled, ‘My baby’s choking!’”The quick-thinking cop grabbed the 8-month-old girl out of her car seat, flipped her over and hit her a dozen times on the back “until something dislodged.”“I didn’t see anything or feel anything come out, but she let out a cough, like she had the relief,” said Greaney, who works in the office of the Chief of Detectives.“She let out a little cry, which obviously we know that If you’re talking or crying, you’re not choking.

So that [was] a good sign,” he said.Greaney — who has a 3-year old and a 1-and-a-half year-old —  stayed calm in the moment but said he understands how horrified the fellow father must have been.“[There are] definitely all sorts of emotion, panic, shock, terrified and everything,” he said.“So I’m glad that I was able to relieve him of those emotions, and I’m happy that she’s gonna be here for Christmas.”Once the baby was breathing again, a nurse pulled over to help, he said.“She said, ‘She’s all good.She’s breathing.

You can give her back to dad,’” Greaney recalled. “He just said, ‘Thank you,’ and I told him to go home and watch a YouTube video on how to do the Heimlich, so if this ever happens again, he can clear it himself,” he said.“I set her back into the car seat, and I took off,” said Greaney — who later learned dramatic footage of him saving the baby’s life had gone viral.�...