Baby Born On Plane, A preemie baby, born on a plane on an international flight from Taiwan headed for Los Angeles, is reportedly doing well. Six hours into the flight, the 32-week pregnant mother’s water broke, and by the time they made an emergency landing, the flight’s manifest listed one additional passenger.Reports BBC News: “A woman has given birth during a Los Angeles-bound China Airlines flight after unexpectedly going into labor. The baby girl was delivered by a doctor who happened to be on the flight from Bali on Thursday. The plane made an emergency landing in Alaska where the mother and baby were both taken to hospital.”
“I just thought it was an amazing experience to see someone giving birth right in front of me,” said Edmund Chen, who like many passengers had his cell phone camera rolling. The doctor on board enlisted the help of flight attendants, who as stand-in nurses attempted to give the new mom in row 49 some privacy.
The doctor who stepped up was a UCLA internist, who had never before delivered a baby. Dr. Angelica Zen was returning from her honeymoon, and was able to speak Mandarin with the Taiwanese mother.
“It was very difficult,” Zen said. “We had to work under very constraining circumstances.”
“My training is in internal medicine pediatrics so we do adults and kids, but really no pregnant women at all, so since my training we haven’t done much OBGYN,” Zen said, according to Reuters. “I was a little bit nervous.”
According to the Inquisitr, the birth has touched off a bit of a citizenship debate. Since the birth occurred near American soil and over US airspace, the child technically may be granted U.S. citizenship.
Fellow passenger Amira Rajput reported that a US Border Patrol agent asked to see the mother’s passport. “He told me that this is something foreign women do, to try and deliver overseas for citizenship,” Rajput said. “This is a political issue. People die to come to this country.”
“I just thought it was an amazing experience to see someone giving birth right in front of me,” said Edmund Chen, who like many passengers had his cell phone camera rolling. The doctor on board enlisted the help of flight attendants, who as stand-in nurses attempted to give the new mom in row 49 some privacy.
The doctor who stepped up was a UCLA internist, who had never before delivered a baby. Dr. Angelica Zen was returning from her honeymoon, and was able to speak Mandarin with the Taiwanese mother.
“It was very difficult,” Zen said. “We had to work under very constraining circumstances.”
“My training is in internal medicine pediatrics so we do adults and kids, but really no pregnant women at all, so since my training we haven’t done much OBGYN,” Zen said, according to Reuters. “I was a little bit nervous.”
According to the Inquisitr, the birth has touched off a bit of a citizenship debate. Since the birth occurred near American soil and over US airspace, the child technically may be granted U.S. citizenship.
Fellow passenger Amira Rajput reported that a US Border Patrol agent asked to see the mother’s passport. “He told me that this is something foreign women do, to try and deliver overseas for citizenship,” Rajput said. “This is a political issue. People die to come to this country.”
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