I was reading yesterday's paper this morning while having breakfast, and for once was able to smile at the news on the front page. Early Arrival was the headline, and the story was about the brand new baby girl born yesterday, Feb 7th on a Subway platform downtown en route to the hospital. I saw it and though, for once I can smile and laugh at the news on the front page of the news paper instead of shake my head in sorrow and disappointment.
I was interested, so I read the article on Page 2, still relieved that I wasn't reading about another homicide somewhere in the city. The woman's husband delivered the baby, and when paramedics arrived, the baby girl named, Mary Kim, was already born and on the woman's pelvis. The only thing paramedics were immediately worried about what the temperature in the subway station - subway stations in Toronto are quite cold in the winter.
I read on in the article that the Transit Commissioner joked the mother should name the baby Wellesly (after the station it was born in), but that was up to the mother. The mother named her forth and youngest child, Mary Kim. After the birth, the mother's eleven year old daughter said, "It was scary, but I am happy that my baby sister is a girl and she is okay."
What a way to enter the world eh? And as a result of Mary Kim's choice of birth location, the Transit Commissioner is asking his collegues at the Toronto Transit Commisson to give the child a lifetime pass to ride the TTC. If only I had've been born on a Subway platform... oh well. I wish the mother and baby well, and hope that when Mary Kim is old enough, she takes advantage of her lifetime pass for the TTC. I know I would.
On the topic of new babies, my new baby cousin is now two days old. Ashtin Trevor Wills was born on February 6th at 5:43am, weighing in at 7lbs 15oz.
Until then,
Lots of Hanson Love,
Taike Care,
Jen =^-.-^=
