Baby Born On Trans-Atlantic Flight To Boston
Baby, Mother Taken To Hospital
POSTED: 11:03 am EST December 31,
2008
UPDATED: 12:54 pm EST December 31,
2008
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BOSTON -- A flight from Europe arrived in Boston with an extra passenger on Wednesday after a woman on board gave birth somewhere over the Atlantic Ocean.
Baby Born On Trans-Atlantic Flight To BostonNorthwest Airlines Flight 59 from Amsterdam landed safely at Boston's Logan Airport at about 10:30 a.m. Wednesday.The mother, named Susan, is believed to be from Uganda. She was eight and a half months pregnant when she went into labor about six hours into the eight-hour flight."I examined her and the baby was coming out. So I pulled the head. And that is when more physicians came to help -- Dr. (Natarajan) Ramen from Minnesota. He was from radiation oncology, but he knew what to do," said Dr. Paresh Thakkai, a family practitioner from Methuen."The spirit of America is alive and everybody was there to help. People offered baby food, people brought things and people relocated their seats. All I need to let you know is despite the recession, they are still progressive in their thinking," said Ramen, of Minneapolis.The passengers aboard the plane applauded after the 6 ½ pound baby girl let out her first cry and the captain said mother and baby were doing well.The mother and baby were taken to a Boston hospital.
Baby Born On Trans-Atlantic Flight To BostonNorthwest Airlines Flight 59 from Amsterdam landed safely at Boston's Logan Airport at about 10:30 a.m. Wednesday.The mother, named Susan, is believed to be from Uganda. She was eight and a half months pregnant when she went into labor about six hours into the eight-hour flight."I examined her and the baby was coming out. So I pulled the head. And that is when more physicians came to help -- Dr. (Natarajan) Ramen from Minnesota. He was from radiation oncology, but he knew what to do," said Dr. Paresh Thakkai, a family practitioner from Methuen."The spirit of America is alive and everybody was there to help. People offered baby food, people brought things and people relocated their seats. All I need to let you know is despite the recession, they are still progressive in their thinking," said Ramen, of Minneapolis.The passengers aboard the plane applauded after the 6 ½ pound baby girl let out her first cry and the captain said mother and baby were doing well.The mother and baby were taken to a Boston hospital. Copyright 2009 by TheBostonChannel.com. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
