{"id":393607,"date":"2018-01-21T14:58:22","date_gmt":"2018-01-21T14:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=393607"},"modified":"2018-01-21T15:41:46","modified_gmt":"2018-01-21T15:41:46","slug":"doctor-delivers-baby-international-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2018\/01\/doctor-delivers-baby-international-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctor delivers baby on international flight"},"content":{"rendered":"

An off-duty doctor sprung into action on a long-haul flight when a woman sitting next to him suddenly went into labour on the plane.<\/p>\n

27-year-old second-year urology resident Dr Sij Hemal successfully delivered baby Jake after his mother\u2019s contractions started a week early on December 17.<\/p>\n

For Dr Hemal, who works at Cleveland Clinic\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

He just so happened to be sitting next to a French paediatrician, Dr Susan Shepherd, on the flight.<\/p>\n

Dr Hemal was watching a film and waiting for a glass of champagne when a fellow passenger, Toyin Ogundipe, went into labour.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was pretty tired from jet lag,\u201d\u00a0said Dr Hemal<\/a>, who\u2019d celebrated his best friend\u2019s wedding the day before. \u201cI thought I\u2019d just have a drink and fall asleep. As it turned out, I\u2019m glad I didn\u2019t drink anything.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\"Jake<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, the cabin crew couldn\u2019t perform an emergency landing because the plane was flying over the southern coast of Greenland and a diversion would\u2019ve taken two hours.<\/p>\n

But luckily both Dr Hemal and Dr Shepherd were on hand.<\/p>\n

Ogundipe was moved up to first class (which was thankfully largely empty), and both doctors went with her.<\/p>\n

\u201cHer contractions were about 10 minutes apart, so the paediatrician and I began to monitor her vital signs and keep her comfortable,\u201d explains Dr. Hemal.<\/p>\n

But all they had by way of tools was the plane\u2019s scarce medical kit.<\/p>\n

As Ogundipe\u2019s contractions increased to just two minutes apart, it quickly became clear she would have to have the baby on board.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, although Dr Hemal\u2019s area of expertise is urology, he\u2019d delivered seven babies as part of his medical training.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re trained to stay calm and think clearly in emergency situations,\u201d he said. \u201cI just tried to think ahead to what might go wrong, and come up with a creative solution.\u201d<\/p>\n

And the calm manner of the doctors ensured Ogundipe stayed relaxed too: \u201cI was relaxed because I knew I was in safe hands,\u201d she said. \u201cThey 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

30 minutes of pushing later, Ogundipe\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

After Jake\u2019s health was assessed by Dr Shepherd, he soon began nursing on his mother.<\/p>\n

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\u2019s now recovering with family in New Jersey.<\/p>\n

But Dr Hemal\u2019s journey still wasn\u2019t over – he had another flight to Cleveland to catch, which, luckily, was less eventful.<\/p>\n

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Since the unusual labour, Dr Hemal says Air France has\u00a0sent him a travel voucher as well as a bottle of champagne to make up for the glass he never received on board.<\/p>\n

He, Dr Shepherd and Ogundipe have stayed in touch too.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo much could have gone wrong, but it didn\u2019t. Being on that particular flight, sitting next to a paediatrician\u2026 it\u2019s like it was destiny,\u201d says Dr. Hemal. \u201cThanks to God, everything worked out.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Source: The Independent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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