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"I don't think we had time to get nervous or get scared,"
Sergeant Daniel Caban said on Friday.
Caban was patrolling at street level when he got word of the
impending birth at about 6 p.m. from commuters exiting the
subway. Officer Darrell James quickly joined him on the Market
Frankford Line train after hearing an emergency announcement
over radio.
On bare train seats, Caban, 34, helped remove the woman's pants
while James, 29, delivered the child.
The father of the baby removed his sweater and handed it to the
men to wrap his new child in. Passengers stood by and held open
the train's doors during the ordeal to keep the train from
leaving the station.
Neither officer with the Southeastern Pennsylvania
Transportation Authority (SEPTA) had ever helped deliver a
stranger's baby, they said.
After unwrapping the umbilical cord from around the newborn's
neck, paramedics entered the train car and took over.
The medics cut the umbilical cord and took the baby and his
mother by ambulance to the Hahnemann University Hospital.
The pair was in good condition on Friday afternoon, hospital
spokeswoman Gianna DeMedio said.
On Friday, Caban and James visited the mother, who was excited
to see them and grateful for their help, they said.
"The experience was awesome," Caban said.
(Reporting by Laila Kearney; Editing by Richard Chang)
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