Metro baby, mother head home from the hospital The baby who became an instant celebrity after his birth earlier this week in the L'Enfant Plaza Metro station left the hospital Saturday afternoon, bound for his mother's home in Southeast Washington. Just before 1 p.m. Shavonnte Taylor, 23, was pushed in a wheelchair outside George Washington University Hospital. On her lap, she displayed her two-day-old son, Amir, who was strapped into a car seat for the ride home. "I can't wait to have him home," Taylor told the reporters, photographers and videographers who'd assembled to chronicle their departure. He's now doing very good. He's healthy and happy. Amir, who weighed 8 pounds, 5 ounces at birth, was discharged after spending two days in the neonatal intensive care unit at GWU. Doctors had been monitoring his breathing after he suffered from "respiratory distress shortly after birth," hospital officials said in a statement on Friday. Amir's birth on Thursday was assisted by several people, including two Metro Transit Police officers, station managers and a licensed emergency medical technician. On Twitter, he was dubbed #Metrobaby. Taylor, whose due date was Aug. 17., was on her way to a doctor's appointment near Foggy Bottom when her contractions started, she said. When she got off the train and tried to transfer from the Green Line to the Orange Line, the pain from the contractions was so bad she fell to her knees, she said. "I was praying to at least have it at the hospital," Taylor said. Taylor's sister, Marshay Whytaker, was waiting outside the hospital to drive her sister and nephew home. She said this was the first time she was going to see the baby. She also said she was shocked when she heard about her sister giving birth on a Metro platform. "Every child has came in a different way," she said about Taylor's three other children. She said her sister gave birth to one daughter at home, by herself. "Every time has been fast," she said.