Woman Gives Birth on Southwest Flight

They might have to put one of those yellow and black ‘Baby On Board’ stickers on the window of Southwest Airlines.

A Southwest flight headed from San Francisco to Phoenix had to divert to Los Angeles International Airport this morning when a woman went into labor and delivered a baby on-board.

The extraordinary circumstance – it is unknown how far along the woman was, and doctors usually advise pregnant women not to fly after seven months – unfolded shortly after takeoff, a Southwest spokesman told KTLA-TV in Los Angeles.

There were more than 110 passengers on the plane, according to ABC News. Among them? A doctor and a nurse who helped deliver the baby at 35,000 feet while the pilot made a detour down the coast to land in Los Angeles.

The flight departed San Francisco at 6:24 a.m. PST and was scheduled to land in Phoenix at 9:25 a.m. It landed at LAX at 7:38 a.m.

A Los Angeles International spokesperson said mother and child were “doing fine” at a Los Angeles hospital, according to KTLA. The remaining passengers were able to board another flight to Phoenix.

Source: Travel Pulse