A Woman Gave Birth On The New York Subway Thanks To The Help Of Random Strangers Riding The Train
ABC- A 25-year-old woman gave birth to a baby girl on a New York City subway train on Wednesday, according to MTA officials.
The birth took place around 11:30 a.m. on a southbound W train stopped at the 34th Street-Herald Square station. Eyewitness News reporter Sonia Rincon spoke to the woman who took the video of the birth, which was described as a little miracle on 34th Street.
"Definitely a miracle. A lot of things could have went wrong, and thank God that it didn't," said witness Bryanna Brown.
Brown was on that downtown W train and noticed a few people rushing over to help a young woman who had dropped to the floor.
"I'm still minding my business, headphones on. As we're entering 34th Street, you hear her asking 'help help help,' and then you hear a baby, like, start crying," Brown said.
Some passengers rushed to the conductor to stop the train and called 911. Another produced a pocket knife to cut the umbilical cord.
"The lady that was holding the baby was able to cut the umbilical cord safely and help her. From our knowledge she wasn't a doctor or anything, she was just someone who had full knowledge of like, what to do in this situation, so thank god for her," Brown said.
Look, New Yorkers take a lot of shit for being a little rough around the edges and sometimes rightfully so. Hustling through a dirty, overcrowded city in order to make enough money to pay the exorbitant rent prices for undersized apartments will do that to people. But goddamn do they answer the bell when someone is in need.
I guarantee if that woman didn't ask for help, the entire train would've continued doing the signature New Yorker dead-eye stare straight ahead ignoring the entire outside world until their stop. However, when they heard someone was in need, they jumped into action the New York way. No it wasn't a group of doctors or EMTs that just happened to be on a train, but just a bunch of everyday folks including someone with a knife that, and I quote, "had full knowledge of like, what to do in this situation". I'm guessing she saw this Dr. Hibbert scene from The Simpsons like me.
As for the baby, I feel like being born on the dirty ass floor of a New York Subway train is a tough way to enter this already cruel world. On the bright side though, it probably makes you impervious to diseases like Ellie from The Last Of Us, which is a fair trade off to having your umbilical cord sawed off by a good samaritan (which by the way had to be tough as fuck to do considering I've cut two of those bad boys with scissors after my kids were born and that shit is slippery when you don't have the gazes of a full subway car beating down on you).
Anyway, best wishes to both mother and child along with shout outs to everyone on that train that helped out. I can only imagine the amount of loud sighs that were let out by countless commuters when they heard the W train was delayed for a medical emergency without knowing the chaos that took place in that train as the miracle of life took place.