KIOWA, Colo. -- An Elbert County infant is alive and well thanks to some quick thinking by two sheriff's deputies.

Sgt. Tony Schiefelbein and Deputy Bonner Cordova helped deliver Serenity Rayne Brown, and then performed cardio-pulmonary resuscitation when they noticed that she wasn't breathing.

The infant's father, Ken Brown, was on an errand to pick up some pain medication for his wife when she went into labor six weeks early.

"I came home to hear her in agonizing, screaming pain," Brown said. "I was like, 'What's going on?'"

Brown said he called 911 and the two deputies arrived within minutes.

A few seconds later Serenity showed up.

"The baby was not breathing," Cordova said. "I asked the dad to get an infant syringe bulb."

But Brown couldn't find one.

"So I told him to go get a turkey baster," Cordova added.

The deputies cleared out the baby's nose and throat, and then began administering CPR.

"After two or three minutes, the baby started to come around," Schiefelbein said.

Both parents describe the deputies as a godsend.

"If they had not been there, I would have delivered the child myself," Brown told 7NEWS. "And I don't know what I would have done. The child probably would have died in my arms."

Both officers said what they did was all in a days work.

"It was really cool being part of ... a miracle like that," Schiefelbein said. "It's those kinds of calls that make it all worthwhile."

"They won't necessarily call themselves heroes," said Mark Wilson, senior investigator at the Elbert County sheriff's office. "But they saved a life."

Serenity Rayne is still hospitalized in the neonatal care unit at The Children's Hospital in Aurora.

"She's in great shape," said the infant's mom, Lea Stringer. "She was on a breathing tube, but they've taken it out. The nurses at Children's have been really good to her."

Stringer said she's looking forward to taking her newborn daughter home.

She and Brown said that when the baby gets stronger, they'll invite the two deputies over for a proper introduction.

Brown told 7NEWS that he doesn't know CPR right now, but added that he intends to learn it.

He said, "Someday, I hope to return the favor to someone else."