Aberdeen Emergency Officials Help Deliver Baby On Amtrak Train

ABERDEEN, Md. (WJZ)—Aberdeen Police and fire officials jumped right into action when a pregnant woman went into labor on an Amtrak train in route to New York.

Sheera Lowe, of Philadelphia boarded an Amtrak train in Kannapolis, North Carolina after visiting her husband who works out of the state. Her baby was due on March 4th, but she says she began experiencing contractions just after leaving Penn Station, in Baltimore on Saturday evening.

That's when Aberdeen Police Department Officer Gibbons and Officer Testerman, Aberdeen Fire Department Paramedic Keith Williams and EMT Judy Hinchmet met Lowe at the Amtrak station, in Bel Air, where they help delivered her baby, Trinity Christina Stokes.

Police say shortly after Trinity was born, mother and daughter were transported to University of Maryland Upper Chesapeake Medical Center where they could rest comfortably.

Lowe says Trinity's middle name, "Christina," was named after a passenger on the train who provide comfort during the birth of her child.

Police say Officer Gibbons was so touched by the birth of Trinity that he stopped by the hospital himself to check out Mrs. Lowe and her daughter.

Trinity entered the world at 6:01 PM, weighing a healthy 8 lbs. 5 ounces.