27-year-old second-year urology resident Dr Sij Hemal successfully delivered baby Jake after his mother’s contractions started a week early on December 17.

For Dr Hemal, who works at Cleveland Clinic’s Glickman Urological and Kidney Institute, the eight hour Air France flight from Paris to New York was the second leg of his journey back to the States from India.

He just so happened to be sitting next to a French paediatrician, Dr Susan Shepherd, on the flight.

Dr Hemal was watching a film and waiting for a glass of champagne when a fellow passenger, Toyin Ogundipe, went into labour.

“I was pretty tired from jet lag,” said Dr Hemal, who’d celebrated his best friend’s wedding the day before. “I thought I’d just have a drink and fall asleep. As it turned out, I’m glad I didn’t drink anything.”

41-year-old Ogundipe is a banker who lives between the US and Nigeria – she went into labour early while travelling with her four-year-old daughter, Amy.

Unfortunately, the cabin crew couldn’t perform an emergency landing because the plane was flying over the southern coast of Greenland and a diversion would’ve taken two hours.

But luckily both Dr Hemal and Dr Shepherd were on hand.

Ogundipe was moved up to first class (which was thankfully largely empty), and both doctors went with her.

“Her contractions were about 10 minutes apart, so the paediatrician and I began to monitor her vital signs and keep her comfortable,” explains Dr. Hemal.

But all they had by way of tools was the plane’s scarce medical kit.

As Ogundipe’s contractions increased to just two minutes apart, it quickly became clear she would have to have the baby on board.

Fortunately, although Dr Hemal’s area of expertise is urology, he’d delivered seven babies as part of his medical training.

“We’re trained to stay calm and think clearly in emergency situations,” he said. “I just tried to think ahead to what might go wrong, and come up with a creative solution.”

And the calm manner of the doctors ensured Ogundipe stayed relaxed too: “I was relaxed because I knew I was in safe hands,” she said. “They did everything a doctor or midwife would have done if I was in the labour room in the hospital. Even better, if you ask me.”

30 minutes of pushing later, Ogundipe’s baby boy Jake was born. Dr Hemal removed the placenta and tied off the umbilical cord with a surgical clamp and a shoestring before cutting it off with scissors.

After Jake’s health was assessed by Dr Shepherd, he soon began nursing on his mother.

As soon as the plane touched down in New York, Ogundipe, Amy and Jake headed straight to hospital but were released later that day. She’s now recovering with family in New Jersey.

But Dr Hemal’s journey still wasn’t over – he had another flight to Cleveland to catch, which, luckily, was less eventful.

Since the unusual labour, Dr Hemal says Air France has sent him a travel voucher as well as a bottle of champagne to make up for the glass he never received on board.

He, Dr Shepherd and Ogundipe have stayed in touch too.

“So much could have gone wrong, but it didn’t. Being on that particular flight, sitting next to a paediatrician… it’s like it was destiny,” says Dr. Hemal. “Thanks to God, everything worked out.”

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Source: The Independent

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Kamiyah Mobley, who was abducted in July 1998, was found after a tip.

Authorities in Walterboro, South Carolina, have charged Gloria Williams, 51, with kidnapping.

Ms Mobley was living under another name and believed Ms Williams to be her mother. The biological family have been notified of the news.

Jacksonville Sherriff’s Office said DNA tests had confirmed Ms Mobley’s identity.

She appeared in good health, a “normal 18-year-old woman”, it said.

The office said it had acted on 2,500 tips since the abduction and received one last year to @MissingKids that eventually broke the case.

It showed the original composite images released at the time of the kidnapping, along with a photograph of Ms Williams, who was arrested at her home on Friday morning.

Family ‘elated’
The baby was only eight hours old when she was taken by a woman posing as a health care worker at the University Medical Center, now known as UF Health Jacksonville.

The woman told Kamiyah’s mother, Shanara, that her baby had a fever and needed to be checked. She took the baby out of the room and disappeared.

The case brought significant media attention as Shanara tried to locate her child.

Although the biological family had been notified of the discovery and were “elated”, the Jacksonville Sherriff’s Office said: “It is up to the victim on how contact will be made. The victim is now an adult.”

Jacksonville Sheriff Mike Williams said: “She had an idea that something may have occurred but… imagine her trying to process this.

“She was abducted as a newborn and needs time to process this… We want to respect her privacy and we ask that you do too.”

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Source: BBC

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As part of an investigation carried out by Aksaray Public Prosecutor Ayhan Demir, Ş.A. was detained by police and taken to Aksaray from Şanlıurfa province, despite the fact that she produced hospital reports saying she should not travel as she gave birth a week earlier by C-section.

She also told police officers that her baby was premature and needs to be fed breast milk and also requires special care in the intensive care unit.

When police officers contacted Demir over the phone saying the woman has hospital reports that show she cannot travel, Demir ordered them to bring her to Aksaray and kept her in custody for 10 hours.

Speaking in Parliament on Wednesday, main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) İstanbul deputy, Mahmut Tanal, said that this kind of treatment of a mother whose baby is in intensive care and needs its mother’s protection is unacceptable.

Calling on female deputies in Parliament in part of his speech, Tanal said: There are mothers among us. Can a baby in an intensive care unit be separated from its mother? What kind of mentality does that? Which judicial system accepts that? Which ideology embraces that?

Despite Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen, whose views inspired the Gülen movement, and the movement having denied the Turkish government’s and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s accusation of masterminding a coup attempt on July 15 that killed over 240 people and wounded more than a thousand others, Erdoğan — calling the coup attempt “a gift from God” —launched a widespread purge aimed at cleansing sympathizers of the movement from within state institutions, dehumanizing its popular figures and putting them in custody.

Over 115,000 people have been purged from state bodies, in excess of 82,000 detained and more than 41,000 have been arrested since the coup attempt.

Detainees include teachers, journalists, judges, prosecutors, police and military officers, academicians, governors and even a comedian.

Critics argue that the lists of Gülen sympathizers were drawn up prior to the coup attempt.

Below is the video:

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By: turkishminute.com

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The babies, 15 males and 14 females, were all in healthy condition when the facilities where they were delivered was visited.

The facilities are the Sunyani Regional, the Sunyani Municipal and the Seventh Day Adventist (SDA) Hospitals respectively.

Madam Ellena Akrasi, a staff midwife on duty at the Regional Hospital, told the GNA that three out 14 births, comprising eight males and six females delivered at the facility, went through caesarean section.

She urged pregnant women to visit antenatal clinics regularly, take their medication on schedule and follow the advice by the clinicians to avoid complications during delivery.

Mrs Felicia Tuffour, a senior Midwifery Officer at the Municipal Hospital, said the facility had 10 deliveries of five males and five females but the former included a set of twins.

She urged husbands to accompany their pregnant wives at the onset of labour pains to the hospitals, saying, that was important because they could be asked to perform sensational massage services to enhance “diversionary therapy” as part of the delivery process.

At the SDA Hospital, five babies, three males and two females were delivered but one of the former was by caesarean section.

All the mothers were above age 20 except two who were adolescents of ages 17 and 18 at the Municipal and Regional Hospitals respectively.

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Source: GNA

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