She said that the baby looked healthy and the mother was happy.
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The flight from Bali to Los Angeles made an emergency landing on Thursday after a Taiwanese passenger’s waters broke six hours into the 19 hour journey.
A pregnant woman aboard a China Air flight from Taiwan to Los Angeles went into labour in mid-air and was lucky to have a physician on board to deliver her baby safely. “The flight crew was very helpful bringing me any medical equipment, helping me out with the patient”. Usually I see adult patients, older patients and pediatric kids.
Should the baby born on the plane from China get American citizenship since it was born in US airspace?
Flight attendants helped out, providing towels, blankets and makeshift instruments as fellow passengers recorded videos with their phones. Dr. Angelica Zen stepped up to help. The attendants and passengers break into cheers and applause when the doctor hands the crying newborn to one of the attendants. “I was a little bit nervous”.
According to ABC 7, it is unclear if the baby was born in a 12 mile range of Alaska, which would make the baby a USA citizen.
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Thirty minutes out of Anchorage, the baby arrived before the plane did.
