Woman gives birth on NYC sidewalk, names daughter after good Samaritan
who gave her a coat
Good News - 4 hrs ago
On Monday afternoon, 39-year-old Polly McCourt gave birth to her third
child: a healthy 7-pound, 6-ounce daughter named Ila.
Ila's birthplace: a Manhattan sidewalk.
"She's a real New Yorker," McCourt said of her baby girl. "She's born
on the streets of New York."
The New York Daily News reported that British-born McCourt was at home
in her Upper East Side apartment when she started going into labour.
She rushed downstairs to hail a cab, but it was too late.
"I was starting to feel worse and worse, and I thought, 'Oh, this is
not good,'" McCourt said. "I went downstairs to get a taxi and my
water broke, right in the front foyer of the building."
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Her apartment building's doorman, Anton Rudovic, quickly came to her aid.
"Anton knew that I was in trouble, so he walked me to the corner of
the street to try to get a taxi. And then I went, 'Oh no. She's going
to come out,'" she recalled.
"She just came out. I thought I had longer!"
McCourt gave birth on the sidewalk during rush hour surrounded by a
crowd of good Samaritans.
Her baby daughter was born in less than 5 minutes. Both mother and
child are in good condition.
One of the kind strangers who stopped to help McCourt was a woman
named Isabel who gave her the grey coat off her back. McCourt named
her daughter Ila Isabelle in her honour.
"She had to go home without a coat on," McCourt said of the woman who
stopped to help her. "She gave my husband her phone number and he lost
it in the commotion."
"She was meant to be Ila Polly...but now she's Ila Isabelle. We're
very happy with it," McCourt told the Mirror.
The New York Daily News tracked down the woman who gave McCourt her
coat. Isabel Williams, 20, said she didn't think twice about offering
her coat and sweater to wrap the newborn in:
"You just do what you have to do, you know?"
When she told the little girl had been named — in part — after her,
she exclaimed, "That's the sweetest thing I ever heard!"
McCourt and her husband plan to thank Isabel in person soon.
McCourt's husband, Cian, had been stuck in the Lincoln Tunnel when his
wife went into labour. He arrived on the scene shortly after Ila was
born.
"It was a crazy experience," Cian, 40, said of the event some are
calling "a miracle on 3rd Avenue."
"My wife was really calm very together...She's a strong woman."
"Having a baby in a hospital is a miracle. I don't know what to call
it when you have a baby in the street. It's incredible," doorman
Rudovic told the New York Post.
3 comments

Congrats to mother and daughter! Thank God all went well. That is a
nice weight for the baby. I had a friend, who had children in no time.
The first one was born in the elevator in the hospital, the second one
in the car and the third one she didn't even have time to get out of
the house! Amazing, some of these births!
A Yahoo! User, 3 hrs ago

Lol! Just another "normal" day in NYC! Seriously though...well done to
the new mother, her baby and the wonderful people that helped.
SHELDON, 3 hrs ago

This is one woman, when she grows up, can literally say, I was born on
the sidewalk on the corner of the streets. Lol...... not many can say
that!
mw, 3 hrs ago
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