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• Woman Gives Birth on Front Lawn

  Jennifer Coffman didn't have to travel far to bring her second daughter into the world. She cut out all that pesky business of driving to the hospital and delivered right on her front lawn. Read More... Posted Jul 31 2008, 09:32 AM by Jen Chaney with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: labor, Michigan, delivery, doula, ann arbor, going into labor, Jennifer Coffman, front lawn, weird births

• A Bouncing Baby Girl ... on a Subway Platform

  There are lots of places where I would prefer not to deliver a child: In a bathroom stall; on a pitcher's mound during the seventh inning stretch at an Orioles game; Newark, New Jersey. (Ah, just kidding, New Jersey residents. That last joke was too easy.) Anyway, I would add to that list: A New York City subway station. But Francine Alfontent did just that on Monday, giving birth to a 6-pound, 7-pounce baby girl on the F train platform at the East Broadway stop. Read More... Posted Jun 25 2008, 11:58 AM by Jen Chaney with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: newborn, birth, New York, labor, delivery, subway, going into labor, Francine Alfontent