Cops Deliver Baby on Philadelphia Subway on Christmas Day

PHILADELPHIA — The police officers who helped deliver a Christmas baby on a subway train reunited with the newborn boy and his parents Friday morning, trading the chaos of the dingy rail car where they first met for the comfort of a hospital room. Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority Police Sgt. Daniel Caban and Officer Darrell James — who joined the delivery-in-progress shortly before 6 p.m. Thursday — sat bedside with the baby and his mother at Hahnemann University Hospital, chatting and posing for pictures. Passengers on the eastbound Market-Frankford train said the officers helped coach the woman through the delivery, removed the umbilical cord from the boy’s neck and placed him in her arms. The baby’s father wrapped him in a shirt to keep warm. “It was breathtaking,” said passenger Ashley Dorsey, who aided in the birth.