Once the cabin crew and passengers clued in to the unexpected delivery, the medical emergency call went out quickly. The response was an unlikely one: Three“I don’t know how a patient gets so lucky as to have three neonatal intensive care nurses on board the same flight when she is in emergency labour,” said family physician Dr. Dale Glenn, who also helped Mounga safely care for the newborn.
“I went back there first, and she is holding a baby, underneath the toilet almost,” Bamfield told a local Hawaii news station. “And so I’m yelling, ‘Mimi! There’s a baby, and it’s little!’” “If they weren’t there, I don’t think he would be here, so I’m very blessed,” Mounga said of the impromptu medical team.
Glenn, the family physician on board, says this actually isn’t that unusual. “I don’t know if the public really realizes that some women just don’t know they’re pregnant, and especially early in the pregnancy where the baby isn’t very large, and a woman has a history of irregular menstrual cycles. There are some women who just don’t realize they’re carrying something.”