Jun 12, 2009 6:30 am US/Eastern
Subway Conductor Delivers Baby On R Train
NEW YORK (CBS) ―
New York City Transit conductor Bretta Sykes said 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 active 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.
MTA subways, buses, and railroads provide 2.6 billion trips to New Yorkers annually.
(© 2009 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. The Associated Press contributed to this report.)
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