How This Nigerian Woman Went Into Labour On A Flight To The UK Is Trending Online
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- January 18, 2018
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Toyin Ogundipe, a Nigerian banker was on a plane to the United Kingdom when she went into labour on December, 17th 2017.
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Ogundipe, who has a residence in both the United Kingdom and Nigeria went into labor about midway into her flight from Paris en route New York. It is said that her contraction started as the jet skirted the southern coast of Greenland, 35,000 feet below.
Coming to her aid was Dr. Sij Hemal, 27, a second-year urology resident at Cleveland Clinic’s Glickman Urological and Kidney Institute who noticed the situation and did his best to best her out of her pain.
Since an emergency landing would have required a two hour change of direction to a U.S. military base in the Azores Islands, the young doctor volunteered to assist the woman in labour and advised the pilot to continue to JFK International Airport, still four hours away.
About 30 minutes of pushing, Toyin gave birth to a boy, whom she named Jake after the young doctor who had delivered him.
Upon arrival at JFK, Toyin, Jake and Amy were quickly taken to Jamaica to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center and were discharged later that day in the home of friends in New Jersey.
They also suggested Toyin be moved to the roomier first-class section, which had very few passengers. While the flight’s air hostesses tended to Toyin’s traveling companion, her 4-year-old daughter, Amy, the doctors helped her mom deliver her baby boy.
The excited mother recalls being rather calm and collected throughout the delivery, attributing this to the calm manner of the two doctors and the professional treatment they gave her.
According to Toyin: “I was relaxed because I knew I was in safe hands. They did everything a doctor or midwife would have done if I was in the labor room in the hospital. Even better, if you ask me.” .
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