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N.J. woman gives birth on train to Manhattan

A New Jersey woman got the morning commute of her life when she gave birth to her first child on a PATH commuter train to New York. The 31-year-old woman, who lives in Harrison, N.J., said she had started feeling contraction-like pains but didn’t think they were real because her baby wasn’t due yet. She and her 30-year-old husband decided to travel into the city to have her checked out Monday.

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