Surprise: didn’t know she was pregnant and had a baby in flight

April 28 Lavinia Mounga stole from Salt Lake City in Honolulu, Hawaii, to enjoy her vacation, when she suddenly started working. In the middle of the journey, gave birth to her son of 29 weeks gestation. The woman assured that she had no idea she was pregnant when she got on the plane. The boy, called Raymond, was born somewhere over the Pacific Ocean on a Delta airline flight. This was reported by the news network NBC.

Lucky for Lavinia and her son on the plane a doctor and three nurses from the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at North Kansas City Hospital were also on the road. They stayed there long enough to help the new mother take care of her newborn baby.

“We were in the middle of the flight and we heard someone calling for medical help,” he said. Lani bamfield, one of the nurses. Bamfield said he went to see what was going on, according to the statement released by the airline, and suddenly saw the woman with a tiny baby in his arms.

Bamfield and the two other nurses treated Lavinia and Raymond three hours until they land in Honolulu. As soon as they got off the airport, they were transported to a medical center.

“I don’t know how a patient is lucky to have three neonatal intensive care nurses on the same flight when she is on emergency labor, but this is the situation we were in,” said a doctor from Hawaii Pacific Health Dale glenn, who was on the plane. “The best thing about it was the teamwork. Everyone joined in and everyone helped“.

In order to carry out first aid for the newborn, professionals had to improvise with tools: used laces to tie and cut the umbilical cord and a smart watch to monitor heart rate of the baby.

“I don’t think people realize how weird it is; there were only about 60 babies born in airplanes in history. It is literally a possibility in a billion ”, added the professional in dialogue with the newspaper. Today.

Raymond’s birth did not just go down in history as an excellent anecdote: a TikTok user captured the most emotional moments of the event and uploaded them to the social network. To date, the post has over fourteen million views.

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