Woman gives birth during flight, unaware she was pregnant

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A woman who did not know she was pregnant gave birth during a flight to Honolulu, Hawaii. Luckily, the plane happened to have a doctor and three nurses on board to assist her with the delivery.

Lavinia Mounga was flying from Salt Lake City, Utah when she went on premature labor for her son Raymond on April 28, as per a news release by Hawaii Pacific Health on Sunday, May 2. She was only 29 weeks into her pregnancy when she gave birth.

Family medicine physician Dr. Dale Glenn helped Mounga deliver her baby, with neonatal intensive care nurses Lani Bamfield, Amanda Beeding and Mimi Ho.

Since the plane was not equipped to care for premature babies, the medical team used shoelac…

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