New York City Subway Conductor Delivers Baby
Thursday, June 11, 2009


New York City Transit conductor Bretta Sykes says she went to catch a train and caught a baby instead.

Sykes was waiting for an incoming train in lower Manhattan on Thursday afternoon when a woman in a subway train at the station went into labor.

The conductor and mother of two says she used information from her own childbirth classes to coach the woman through her seven-minute delivery.

Sykes says the emerging newborn girl just slid right into her hand.

A passenger in the subway car took out her cell phone and recorded the birth — which landed on the local evening news.

Transit officials say mother and child are doing well at a hospital. Their names were not released.

Cool.. Good to know good people really do exist.

:~K