Baby Delivered on D.C. Metro Platform
Metro Transit Police say that a baby was delivered on the platform at L'Enfant Plaza about 10:50 a.m. The child is a boy, authorities added.
A baby was just delivered ON THE PLATFORM at L'Enfant Plaza. MTPD on scene. Additional details will follow. #WMATA
— Metro Transit Police (@MetroTransitPD) August 1, 2013
No other details are available at this point, but the Internet is already being smothered under a river of suggestions that the newborn should be named Pierre. L'Enfant Plaza, of course, is named for Pierre L'Enfant, the French engineer who gave the District of Columbia its street plan and whose last name translates to "the child."
Congrat to #MetroBaby and his mother! We like the name Pierre too. @MetroTransitPD
— Next Gen Transit (@nextgentransit) August 1, 2013
Metro spokesman Philip Stewart says the mother, a 23-year-old woman whose name has not been released, was riding a Greenbelt-bound Green Line train when she went into labor about 10:30 a.m. Luckily, an off-duty emergency medical technician was also on board and offered to assist.
The woman and the EMT stepped onto the platform at L'Enfant Plaza and called for medical attention, but the birth happened before anyone had time to arrive. "The baby was not waiting," Stewart says. The child was delivered and the mother and baby were then transported to a local hospital. Both are in good condition by all accounts, Stewart says.
