A lady who was completely unaware that she was pregnant gave birth while flying from Ecuador to Madrid, Spain.
The lady identified as Tamara started to feel some abdominal pain which prompted her to go to the airline bathroom.
The pain started when the plane took off and just a few hours before landing in the Netherlands according to DailyStar.
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While in the toilet to ease herself, she had two contractions with which she gave birth.
“A few hours before landing in the Netherlands, her stomach hurt and she decided to go to the toilet. To her great surprise, after two contractions, she suddenly had her baby in her hands,” a spokesperson for the Spaarne Gasthuis Haarlem Zuid hospital told NL Times.
The spokesperson noted that doctors and nurses from Austria were on the plane and helped the lady deliver her surprise baby.
The baby was named Maximiliano after a stranger who stayed by her side the whole time.
Once they landed in the Netherlands, Tamara and her baby were taken by ambulance to the hospital.
The hospital confirmed that both mother and child are doing well.
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Pregnant Nigerian woman loses baby and womb for life after refusing CS operation
Meanwhile, a Nigerian doctor shared a story of a pregnant woman who refused a life-saving operation that cost the young mother her child and womb for life.
The doctor identified as Doctor Penking on Twitter said the woman had birthing complications. She was therefore advised to undergo a Caesarean section.
The woman refused and shared two reasons why. The first was that it was not allowed in her family. The second was that her pastor promised she would deliver like the ‘Hebrew’ women.
