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A mother gives birth to her baby on a busy Manhattan sidewalk with hundreds of onlookers.

 A BRITISH woman who gave birth on a New York City street after rushing out of her flat as she went into labour on Monday has been reunited with the Good Samaritan who came to her aid.
Polly McCourt, 39, hailed a cab on Monday with the help of the doorman to her apartment block in the
city’s Upper East Side after she realised she was going into labour, but it was swiped by a passerby.

“He was trying desperately to hail a cab and a lady walked out five metres in front and hailed a cab and got into it,’’ she said from her hospital bed.
“And I went, ‘No, that’s my cab, I want that cab’.’’

Passers-by, including Isabel Williams, 20, helped deliver the little girl, who was named Ila, and kept the pair warm with coats and scarfs until an ambulance arrived and took them to Lennox Hill Hospital.
“She just came out ... I had no choice on that one,” she said.

Miracle on Third Avenue ... Polly McCourt gave birth to her daughter on a footpath in New York’s Upper East Side after a passer-by swiped her taxi. 

Her husband Cian McCourt, 40, a partner at New York’s A&L Goodbody law firm, was stuck in traffic when he received the call and arrived just after his wife gave birth to their daughter in the street during rush hour — a scene caught on camera by a passing news crew.

He said: “I knew instantly that it was Polly, but then I feared the worst. You think, ‘She’s been knocked down’.’’
The BBC report that the Good Samaritan, Ms Williams, visited the new parents at their Manhattan flat on Thursday morning.

Calling Ms Williams a “humble girl”, Ms McCourt told the BBC she wanted to “apologise for ruining her coat, and to thank her very much”.

“She gave up practically everything she had on her back,” she said of Ms Williams, including her coat, jumper and a shirt on a cold winter day.

Ms McCourt was so grateful she gave her daughter her middle name, Isabelle.
“She’ll always remember it so thankyou very much.”

The episode has since been dubbed “miracle on Third Avenue’’. Ila weighed in at 3.3kg.
The couple have two other children, Conor, six, and Adele, four, according to the New York Daily News, and reportedly moved to New York four years ago from Dublin.