Sound Of The Underground--New Born Baby Cry
Updated : May 29, 2009
A woman gave birth to the first baby boy to be born on the London Underground yesterday.
Michelle Jenkins was taken into the staff room at London Bridge station around lunchtime on Tuesday after she recognised the signs that her baby was arriving early while travelling on the Jubilee Line.
The baby, who has not yet been named, is the first boy and only the third child to be born on the London Underground network.
Ms Jenkins asked station staff for help and was taken to the staff room to wait for an ambulance, but her son was born before it could arrive.
Last December, Julia Kowalska became only the second person to have a baby on the Tube after her waters broke on the Jubilee line.
She got off the train with her sister at Kingsbury Station, north west London, and went into labour on the platform.
Jennifer, a healthy girl, was born at 9.35pm on 19 December.
Transport for London said the only other recorded birth on the Underground was in 1924 when Marie Cordery was born at Elephant and Castle.
VeryHappyPig would have preferred to be born on the underground than the muck and stench filled pig stye!
