A woman has given birth during an international flight with the assistance of a holidaying Australian doctor.\u00a0 The grateful Brazillian woman, known as Aline, is reported to have been complaining of back pain during the flight.<\/p>\n
Aline, 26, began having contractions midflight before her waters broke.\u00a0 By this time cabin crew had enlisted Dr Jenny Cook, after checking boarding passes for a doctors name.\u00a0 Aline it is reported was “adamant she was not pregnant”.<\/p>\n
Complicating the situation was a breech presentation – where the baby is positioned feet first.\u00a0 The pilot suggested he would have got a speeding fine had there “been cameras in the air” as he tried to make an emergency landing on Easter Island.\u00a0 However mother and baby could not wait this long and the delivery took place near the toilet and food preparation area.<\/p>\n
Baby Barbara was\u00a0guided into the world without a hitch – luckily for all aboard as Dr Cook had only a basic first\u00a0aid kit and an oxygen mask\u00a0to help her.\u00a0<\/p>\n
According to\u00a0Dr Cook\u00a0“I didn’t know what was going to happen, if the baby was going to breathe, if the mother was going to bleed.”<\/p>\n
“And if I had to make any cuts to get the baby out, were they going to give me a plastic knife?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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