# First year medical student delivers baby in Tube Station

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**Created:** [January 17, 2019, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-year-medical-student-delivers-baby-in-tube-station/827954 "2019-01-17T23:04:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2019, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-year-medical-student-delivers-baby-in-tube-station/827954/1 "2019-01-17T23:04:28Z")

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[Well done](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-46908685), young man!

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> A medical student who helped deliver a baby at a central London Tube station said it was a panicked situation.
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> Hamzah Selim, 21, was on his way home from an anatomy lecture when he heard a woman screaming at Warren Street Station on Tuesday afternoon.
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> The first-year medic rushed to help the woman, who was standing in a “pool of blood” alongside her sister, and used his jumper to protect the newborn.

Serendipity strikes:

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> Mr Selim has not studied midwifery but had just spent the past few weeks at a neo-natal unit as part of his degree at University College London.

He didn’t walk on; rather he went to help. He applied his knowledge. He succeeded. (Granted the mother did most of the work!)

Well done!

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**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2019, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-year-medical-student-delivers-baby-in-tube-station/827954/2 "2019-01-18T21:39:09Z")

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I thought this was going to be the punchline:

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> And it turned out that the woman wasn’t actually pregnant.

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**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2019, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-year-medical-student-delivers-baby-in-tube-station/827954/3 "2019-01-18T22:46:47Z")

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Awww…this is great! Bravo, sir!

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> …He tried to find the baby’s pulse but could not feel anything. “I was in utter panic,” he recalled.
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> It then came back to him to test the baby’s reflexes and, after rubbing its cheek, “it just coughed in my face, and it was the best moment of my life,” he said.
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> He handed the baby wrapped in his jumper to the mother before the paramedics arrived.
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> “The mum was incredible, she was so strong, and so much more brave than me,” he said.  
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These days, the news makes me cry a lot, but I’m having some good tears in my eyes now…