BARNEGAT — A 21-year-old Barnegat woman who later said she didn't know she was pregnant delivered a baby boy on her front lawn Tuesday morning, according to a report on NBCPhiladelphia.com.

Elizabeth Whitehead gave birth to the child around 11 a.m. in front of the house on Pulaski Drive, APP.com and NBC Philadelphia said. Two Barnegat police officer said the infant was not breathing when they arrived. They performed CPR and the child was then rushed by ambulance to Southern Ocean Medical Center in Manahawkin.

The boy was about three months premature, the NBC report said. His father told the television station the baby weighed only about two pounds but is doing "OK."

Whitehead was admitted to the hospital and released the same day.

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