Cheryl Murfin

Now, as somebody who's in the birth field, I know that it was my hormones going up and down that caused me to want to go shopping, but I did.

I packed my baby up in the car seat and I put her in the car and we drove off to the grocery store and we went through the grocery store aisles and everybody oohed and aahed at the baby and I thought that was great and we got through the...

checkout line and back out into the parking lot and I put all the groceries into the car and I drove off and I put on some music and about 10 minutes later I realized the baby wasn't in the car.

So you can imagine, with a little bit of panic, I did an illegal U-turn over four lanes of traffic and gunned it back to the parking lot.

And I actually left, when I looked, there were tire marks because I came screeching around into the parking lot.

And I came to a stop.

And I just looked out of the window of my car.

I'm hysterical.

There's a circle of people all around.

I can't see the baby, but there's a circle of people.

I get out of the car and I'm shaking and I'm crying and I walk over to the circle and it kind of breaks open and there's the baby looking happy as a clam in her little car seat, you know, googling up and standing over her is a rather large elderly police officer.

And I thought, oh my god, I'm going to be taken away.

I'm going to be arrested.

She's going to call CPS.

She looked at me and she said, is this your first baby?

And I said, .

And so she walked over to me and she picked up the baby carrier and she walked over to me, the police officer, and she put the baby carrier in my hand and she said, I'm going to walk you to your car.

And she walked me to my car.

She made sure that the car seat was adjusted right in the car.

And then she said, I'm gonna follow you home.