On October 21, a happy event occurred on the platform of the Gorge-de-Loup metro station in Lyon (9th arrondissement).
A 22-year-old woman gave birth to a baby girl in the morning on her way to the maternity ward for her pregnancy follow-up.
The beautiful story - the baby is fine - could have turned out badly without the intervention of a TCL line agent.
“The central post called me for a simple travel discomfort.
But when I got to the lady, we noticed that she was giving birth, ”says Lukasz Targowski, who was not to be in this post that day.
A few slaps on the buttocks ...
With the help of other agents, he sets up a security perimeter seeing that the firefighters will not arrive in time.
" Everything happened really fast.
I was all alone in my bubble with the mom.
She was in great pain.
When the baby came out, he was not breathing because of the liquid.
I stimulated him with a few slaps on the buttocks and he took his first breath.
It was a real relief, ”recalls the 39-year-old father.
His years as a military nurse were very useful to him in this moment of extreme tension: “I had done a stretcher-first-aid internship with the Paris fire brigade during which we intervened on a home birth.
I had seen how they had proceeded, it had marked me.
"
If he has not heard from the mother and the baby since October 21, Lukasz Targowski is simply happy to have been able to help.
“The main thing is that they are doing well.
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