A woman gave birth mid-flight and now her baby might have a lifetime of free flights
Missy Berberabe Umandal, a passenger on a Cebu Pacific Air flight from Dubai to the Philippines, shared a now-viral Facebook status about a woman who gave birth mid-flight, New York Magazine first reported. The woman's due date was in October, but she started having contractions five hours into the flight, forcing flight attendants to think fast.
From the sound of it, the whole ordeal was handled really well.
Two nurses that were passengers on the flight helped the woman give birth in a "spacious area" in the front of the plane, Umandal wrote in the Facebook post. Flight attendants filled a shelf with mineral water to wash the baby, and another passenger gave infant clothing and supplies they had in their suitcase.
"It was immediately decided that an emergency landing in India was necessary to ensure the baby's health, as it was born 2 months earlier than expected," Umandal wrote. "We might have misheard the name, but it sounded like the baby would be named 'Haven.'"
The nine-hour flight turned into an 18-hour one as a result of the surprise birth.
Umandal reports that the airline is giving the baby girl a lifetime of free flights. Cebu Pacific Air did not immediately respond to Business Insider's request for comment on whether this is true.