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The New York Subway is known for the larger-than-life situations riders often go through. From bands playing music, fights, and juggling acts, and probably even tattoos being given. If you can imagine it, it’s likely happened on the subway train.

On February 13, riders were part of two miracles that day. A young pregnant woman went into labor and had to give birth on the train. Luckily, there was a woman in the same car with medical experience who helped lay her down and deliver her baby.

The doctor had to use another passenger’s pocket to cut the baby’s umbilical cord before the train was able to stop at the 34th Street station. Another woman filmed the entire dramatic event and uploaded it to the internet, where it quickly went viral.

While the young mother and her baby were resting in a nearby hospital, the internet went to work solving putting together the second miracle of the day.

The mother turned out to be a missing person

The video caught the attention of the mother’s sister, who identified Jenny Saint Pierre’s pink duffle bag sitting on the train’s seat. Jenny was reported missing by her ex-boyfriend in August of last year, noting she could be in danger due to her schizophrenia.

Her ex-boyfriend said she’d disappeared after they argued, and they’d worried about her ever since.

Her family was elated their loved one was safe, and that the community helped keep her safe.

“I’ve been thinking about my daughter every day, praying every day that she’s OK, that her baby is OK,” Pierre’s mother told The Times. “I’m going to sleep good tonight.”

Viewers were just as excited to experience a happy ending on a subway

Out of the 999 comments on the Inside Edition’s coverage of the incident, none of them were negative. A majority were excited that the community came together to help a woman in need.

“So glad to see multiple women come together during a very vulnerable time for the mother and baby,” they wrote.

Another viewer with medical experience commented it would have been safer to leave the cord attached.

“OB nurse here: no need to worry about cutting the cord. Leave it for the EMT to deal with. It doesn’t harm mom or baby to leave it attached,” they wrote.

Some expressed concern about strangers recording her vulnerable moments like that.

“Where are the boundaries between privacy and decency? Can you imagine going into labor on the subway with strangers all around you and someone pulls out their phone?” they wrote.