NEW YORK (AP) – The choking baby boy dramatically rescued by a police officer after his panicking nanny ran into the street with him and was hit by truck is “on the road to recovery,” a hospital said Thursday.

The 1-year-old, Nicholas Brodie, was listed in guarded condition at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, where he was rushed on Tuesday in the arms of a police officer who grabbed him from the nanny’s hands as she cried, “Save the baby.”

“His parents are grateful to fellow New Yorkers for their thoughts and prayers, in particular to those people who helped bring Nicholas to the hospital in time,” the hospital said in a statement.

The nanny was struck by the truck at around 9:30 a.m. Tuesday while apparently rushing the baby to the hospital a few blocks away after he choked on an orange in the family’s Manhattan apartment.

She was sprawled on Second Avenue with a bone sticking out of her bleeding leg and was holding the baby above her head when Officer Edgar Louisjuste came to the rescue.

He grabbed the baby, who had turned blue and gone limp, and jumped into the back of a friend’s van, which sped toward the hospital. He pushed lightly on the boy’s back to try to revive him, and the boy vomited and began to breathe.

The New York Police Department officer called an ambulance for the nanny, who also was taken to NewYork-Presbyterian.

The nanny’s family didn’t want her name or condition revealed.