Want to make the PATH train go express? All you need to do is pick a day in the future when you'll be in a rush and get knocked up nine months in advance. Then, when your water breaks in New Jersey, just make sure commute to the hospital via mass transit, which will snap into high gear in tune with your contractions! At least, that's what we've learned from 31-year-old Rabita Sarker, of Harrison, NJ, who gave birth on the PATH this morning with the help of her husband and another passenger. more ›

A fourth-year nursing student in Brooklyn got one heck of a pop quiz yesterday, helping deliver a healthy baby girl in the back of a Nissan on Flatbush Avenue. The special delivery came around 9:45 a.m. as 24-year-old Crystal Cardona was trying to get to the hospital with her fiancé. Before they could go, though, the little girl inside Cardona apparently decided she was ready to come out right now. Luckily, the woman's neighbor noticed the commotion outside in the nick of time: Aionga Pereira, a nursing student at Long Island University College, grabbed a clean towel from her apartment and ran outside. "She was having a baby in the backseat of a car," Pereira recalled. "I’m really just happy that I did OB (obstetrics) last semester," she later joked to the Post. "But that didn’t take the nervousness away." more ›

A Brooklyn woman got the livery cab ride of her life on Wednesday when her baby decided not to wait for the hospital and instead appeared at 51st Street and Seventh Avenue. Even Sweeney called a cab from Arecibo at 6 p.m., and when she got in, "I was far enough in labor that I was like 'Please lock the doors,' because I knew I was going to be stomping on them." The next thing she, her partner Inez Murray and cabbie Juan Hernandez knew, her water broke. Hernandez said, "She started screaming. I told her, 'If it has to happen here, just push!'" more ›

The NY Post reports that a baby decided to make things dramatic for her mother and playwright father: While in the backseat of a taxi, "Addison Proctor, 36, and his wife, Sally Schuiling, 35, were rushing from their Upper West Side apartment to NYU Medical Center when the baby's head popped out. With one more push, Alice Adeline Proctor entered the world." Aww—here's a picture of the happy family; Schulling said, "I scooped her up and put her on my chest, and she was breathing right away." more ›

It's been a baby boom on NYC Transit! On Thursday, a woman gave birth to a baby girl on a Queens-bound R train—and on Friday, another woman gave birth to a baby girl on the B61 bus! Can babies on the LIRR or Metro-North be next? more ›

While Elizabeth Brew managed to hold out until her husband parked outside of Mount Sinai Hospital on Fifth Avenue, the twin babies she was pregnant with couldn't any longer. So she went into labor in the SUV. Luckily nurse manager Lucille Nassery, inside the hospial, has good ears—"There's a certain kind of sound that comes from women who are about to deliver. It's not just a typical scream. It's a whole-body scream"—and brought a team of doctors and nurses outside. The AP reports that Brew's "legs extended toward busy Fifth Avenue and Central Park - the hospital staff brought equipment into the middle of the street. Nassery and other staffers used their bodies to block off two lanes of traffic." The Post has video showing the scene, too. Interested drivers and passengers from other cars inquired about the mother's health and cheered when a 4 pound, 13 ounce baby girl was born in the middle of Fifth. A few minutes later, her twin brother, 5 pounds, 5 ounces, arrived. The babies are healthy; but since they are preemies, they will stay in neonatal intensive care while their mother is recovering in a hospital room. Three cheers for the babies, the mom and the hospital team! more ›

During three police officers' "routine Counter-Terrorism patrol" at Penn Station yesterday morning, they saw a woman in need of help and it turned out that 29-year-old Marie Booth was going into labor. Officers Deborah Garbut, Marie Medina and Ernest Huang, along with Amtrak police officer Karen Schrof, helped deliver a baby boy to Booth and her husband Jonathan two minutes later. The new dad told NY1 they were on their way to the Bronx from NJ, "As soon as we got to Penn Station I told her I would just call an ambulance to see if we could get some assistance." But the Marie Booth said, "When I got off the escalator that's when I was like you know what, forget the ambulance and everything else. I'm gonna have the baby right here... I didn't care who was there, who was watching me. I was thinking, 'Just get the baby out!'" The Booths named the boy Caesar Penn; he and mom were taken to Bellevue for evaluation. more ›

Aww, there are more details about the baby born in the back of a Brooklyn cab. According to the Daily News, a "panicked taxi driver flagged down two cops while two more arrived to help" 30-year-old Fang Zhao, who was screaming in the cab. Officer Kerryann Douglass told WCBS 2, "She had sweatpants on, and all of a sudden we saw the baby's head coming through the sweatpants. I was like: 'Oh my word.' So I pulled off her pants and out came baby." Douglas and her partner Jobed Serrano caught the baby, and Douglas cleared the baby's airway. Zhao's husband, who tried to get home in time but couldn't when his car service cab didn't show for 45 minutes, said his first words to baby Elina—who is doing well, as is mom— were "You are looking at your daddy now, but you scared your daddy today." more ›