Sheera Lowe was in labor as she pulled herself into the cafe car of an AMTRAK train, but as she looked around, she saw that most passengers were plugged into electronic devices. When she spotted a woman who was simply reading, she decided to approach her.
“I think I’m in labor,” she told the woman. “Can you please help?”
Eighteen minutes later, little Trinity was born, and the train made an unexpected stop at Aberdeen to pick up emergency medical personnel.
Lowe said that the Good Samaritan she had asked for help stayed with her through the entire experience, and so she named her daughter Trinity Christina Stokes, taking the Good Samaritan’s first name as her daughter’s middle name.
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“She wouldn’t leave my side in the whole thing,” Lowe recalled. “I’m so happy and so grateful she stayed.”
Lowe said that she had a “healthy and easy” pregnancy and that she was not due until March 4, so she thought she would be okay to board the train.
Looking back, Lowe now laughs at that decision, because her sister had joked with her that she should hurry back to Philadelphia so her baby would not be born on the train. “I guess she was right,” Lowe said.
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