Baby Born on NY Subway Platform
June 25, 2008 by Eliza Ferree
Filed under Mommy Extras
It doesn’t happen every day but this past Monday, Francine Alfontent gave birth to a little girl in the middle of a very busy New York Subway Platform. Talk about a mad rush, suddenly this is when the subway station would’ve gone deathly quiet. Instead of people rushing for a train they would’ve (hopefully) been stopping to help as Fracine dropped down and went into labor.
She was actually on the train with her husband when she began to feel funny at which point her husband asked the conductor to help. Quickly they slowed to a stop and once they got her out on the platform her water broke and they all knew she’d be giving birth right there. Francine gave birth on the Subway platform.
This story only shows that birth will happen anywhere, at anytime and as fast or slow as you want it. Each of my births were under an hour, I don’t know what I would’ve done if I wasn’t near a hospital. How long were your births?
I went to the maternity unit because I’d been lightly bleeding all night. I got there at quarter past eleven am & was rushed down for an emergency caesarian as the baby was distressed. I had him at eleven forty am. So 25 mins more or less.
Plus no contractions at all, yes, no pain whatsoever & was up & visiting him at 2pm.