Child Learns From Big Bird, Helps Save Mother's...

But the phone high on the wall was beyond the 2-1/2-year-old'sreach.

So, Gage stacked books on a kitchen chair and then pushed thechair beneath the phone last week to make the call.

Gage told a local dispatcher his mom was sick, his name, hisdad's name and his mom's name - ``mommy.''

Jordan Fitzpatrick, Gage's mother, said this week she had beenfeeling sick for several days and collapsed while getting her son acup of milk.

Fitzpatrick, 14 weeks pregnant with her third child, had akidney infection and was going into septic shock. She ended upspending four days in the hospital, and she said Gage's call savedher unborn child from infection.

Gage didn't stop helping after dialing 911. While his mom wasunconscious, Gage fetched a bottle from the refrigerator for hisinfant sister, Hannah, and fed her.

``We're very proud of him,'' Fitzpatrick said.