Baby Born On NYC Mass Transit For 2nd Straight Day

For the second day in a row a newborn girl has been born on New York City's mass transit system. A Brooklyn bus became a makeshift delivery room on Friday morning. A woman passenger helped the mother deliver the baby that just couldn't wait to come aboard.Paramedics took the new mother and baby to a hospital. On Thursday, conductor Bretta Sykes helped a mother deliver a girl in a subway car. The mother of two says she used information from her own chilbirth classes to coach the woman through her seven-minute delivery. A New York City Transit spokesman says it could be the system's first consecutive births on a subway train and a bus. A passenger in the subway car took out her cell phone and recorded the birth which landed on the local evening news. Transit officials say mother and child are doing well at a hospital. Their names were not released. The last mass transit birth was a girl born on a Manhattan subway platform last June. MTA subways, buses, and railroads provide 2.6 billion trips to New Yorkers annually.