Special subway delivery: Woman gives birth to baby girl on New York City transit train
'Baby on board' took on a new meaning Wednesday when a 25-year-old woman gave birth to a baby girl on a New York City subway train. Mother and baby were taken to the hospital in good condition.
In what has been described as "the miracle on 34th Street," a woman brought a baby girl into the world on the New York City subway.
The 25-year-old woman gave birth on the train about 11:30 a.m. ET on Wednesday. Passengers notified the conductor, who stopped the train at the 34 Street-Herald Square subway station, NYC Transit President Demetrius Crichlow said in a statement posted on the system's website.
A NYC Transit train service supervisor and multiple NYPD officers responded to the car, where the woman gave birth and "they were rapidly joined by EMS which transported the baby girl and mother to NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue in good condition," he said.
Officers called EMS and got the mother, who was conscious and alert, and child into the ambulance, a New York Police Department spokesperson told Paste BN.
The hospital did not immediately respond to request for comment on the mom and baby girl's conditions. Names of the mother and baby were not released.
However, Crichlow dubbed the newborn "Baby W," since she was born on the southbound W train.
“This is another example of New Yorkers coming together to help each other, assisted by caring transit workers and other responders, reflecting the best of the subway community and this city," Crichlow said in his statement. "We are thrilled that both mother and Baby W are doing well, and look forward to welcoming both of them back aboard for a lifetime of reliable – and hopefully less dramatic – rides.”
This isn't the first child born on the New York City subway system, reported the Gothamist news site, which in reporting Wednesday's birth dubbed it the "miracle on 34th Street."
In June 2012, a woman delivered a baby boy in the subway in Manhattan and in January 1993, a woman gave birth to seven-pound girl on a subway train at the Wall Street station.
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