Photo by Andrew Abernathy

After a few days at George Washington University Hospital, the infant the Internet dubbed #MetroBaby is now home as a regular newborn. Shavonnte Taylor, the 23-year-old Southeast D.C. woman who went into labor on Thursday on the platform at Metro’s fortuitously named L’Enfant Plaza station, and her newborn son were released Saturday in good health.

Taylor was riding a Greenbelt-bound Green Line train to an obstetrician’s appointment last Thursday morning when she began experiencing labor pains. She stepped off her train about 10:30 a.m., accompanied by an off-duty emergency medical technician who happened to be riding as well. And while the EMT and station manager made an immediate call for medical assistance, the baby would not wait, arriving about 15 minutes later.

Of course, given the hubbub of having a child on a busy Metro platform, Taylor’s exit from the hospital with her two-day-old son, Amir, was also not quiet. A cluster of reporters flocked to the hospital exit. As The Washington Post reports:

“I can’t wait to have him home,” Taylor told the reporters, photographers and videographers who were assembled to chronicle the departure. “He’s now doing very good. He’s healthy and happy.”

Amir, who weighed 8 pounds, 5 ounces at birth, was discharged after spending two days in the neonatal intensive-care unit at GWU. Doctors had been monitoring his breathing after he suffered from “respiratory distress shortly after birth,” hospital officials said in a statement Friday.

Taylor also told reporters that she had hoped to have the baby at the hospital.

Taylor and Amir went home by car, accompanied by Taylor’s sister. But she’ll be able to take complimentary Metro rides for a while; the transit authority gave her a $100 SmarTrip card following her son’s birth.