As if the New Year wasn't making the flight from Amsterdam to Boston merry enough! A Ugandan woman gave birth somewhere high over Canada with the help of a doctor who happened to be on board Northwest Flight 59.
The mom was eight months pregnant and traveling with her toddler and a friend when a passenger alerted the flight attendant that she was kneeling on the floor, wailing in obvious distress. The captain called for a doctor, and found out two were on board, a family physician and a radiation oncologist.
Dr. Paresh Thakker, the family doc, said Mom's contractions were already two to three minutes apart when he got to her, and the baby's head was crowning. There was no point in landing the plane, he told the crew, reaching into help six-pound Sasha make her way into the world. Dr. Natarajan Raman, the oncologist, hasn't delivered a baby in two decades, but he said the lack of a delivery room or the major medical supplies didn't matter - everything was "perfect."
Mom is a Ugandan citizen, but an American resident. Her daughter? She's technically a Canadian citizen now!
Image/Source: Boston Herald
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