Video: woman who did not know she was pregnant gave birth by plane in Hawaii

Lavinia Mounga with baby Raymond and Dr. Dale Glenn, who led impromptu chores during preterm labor.

A doctor and a team of neonatal professionals were in the right place at the right time to help a Utah woman who I didn’t know she was pregnant give birth on board flight from several hours to Hawaii.

Lavinia “Lavi” Mounga She was traveling April 28 from Salt Lake City to the Paradise Islands for a family vacation when she gave birth to her son, Raymond, with barely 29 weeks gestation.

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The doctor Dale Glenn, physician The Hawaii Pacific Health family, as well as Lani Bamfield, Amanda Beeding and Mimi Ho – nurses from a neonatal intensive care unit at North Kansas City Hospital – were also traveling on this flight.

“At during the flight there was a notice of emergency and I’ve experienced this before, because it’s usually pretty straightforward to ask if there’s a doctor on board, ” Glenn said in a press release from Hawaii Pacific Health. “But this call was not like that, and it was enough urgent”, added.

The three nurses and the doctor took action. Without special equipment for the premature baby, the group opted for the creativity: They have used shoelaces to tie and cut the umbilical cord and monitor the baby’s pulse with a smart watch.

“We all try to work in a very small, confined space on an airplane, which is quite complex. But teamwork was awesome “, Glenn pointed out.

Images of the improvised delivery went viral on the social network TIC Tac, where it already accumulates over 11 million of reproductions. The video shared by user Julia Hansen shows how the birth is announced on the flight, and the plane landing three hours later.

Hansen and a friend she was traveling with, Siearra Rowlan, said The Washington Post that the situation caused a initial shock, but at the end of the flight, the other passengers were taking it pretty relaxed.

“Everyone got up, got their hand luggage and left,” Hansen said of the scene after Mounga and her son were first escorted off the plane.

At Honolulu Airport, medical staff were waiting to take the mother and baby to Kapiolani Women’s and Children’s Medical Center.

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Flight nurses were able to visit Mounga and the baby last Friday, in what they described as a emotional Meet. “We all cry. Said we were family and we are all her aunts, and it was great to see them, ”Ho said.

Mounga has already been released, while little Raymond will remain in the unit of intensive care Neonatal (ICU) until you are ready to go home.