Picture this you're 31,000 feet up in the air then all of a sudden you hear a
woman screaming it turns out a pregnant mom has gone into labor what happens
next how is the baby delivered what nationality is the baby if it's in the
air well today we're going to look at all of these questions I'm Charlie and
today we're going to look at what happens if you give birth during a
flight before we take off buckle your seatbelt subscribe and press the
notification bill too so let's imagine you're on a flight with a pregnant woman
all of a sudden she goes into labor and starts screaming the first thing that
will happen is her aisle will be cleared out if it's safe to do so and the plane
is in the air then all passengers sitting around her will need to move
most of the air Stuart's will then crowd around the mom and try and help her out
they'll also ask if there are any doctors on the plane if the answers yes
then the doctor will come and try and deliver the baby but if there's not a
doctor on the plane then it will be left up to either the woman's husband or the
aircraft staff obviously it can be a pretty long and messy process but it
does happen on the plane the plane does not make an emergency landing or turn
back and go back to the airport it's come from instead the berth simply
happens midair also if the mom is not in first class then she will be moved to
first class as there's more space I guess that's one way to get into first
class for free now if someone gives birth on a plane it can be a very very
tense scene sometimes babies born on airplanes that can pass away this is
because it's hardly the ideal conditions to give birth in also most mothers
expecting to give birth do not go on airplanes so most of the time babies
born on airplanes are premature now if you have a premature birth in a hospital
this is usually okay but that's because in hospitals they have all the staff and
equipment you could ever need on an airplane however all you have is air
stewardesses and packets of peanuts giving birth on a plane is also very
rare so it only happens to one in every 26 million passengers according to
doctors it's also best to not have your child on an airplane for other reasons
for example at that altitude the air is thinner so it's harder for a baby to
breathe also there are no prenatal experts with high
tech equipment on an airplane and if a c-section is required then most
stewardesses train for that also the air pressure is very odd an airplanes
this means the newborns babies use statue in tubes can struggle with this
air pressure and damage a baby's is but either the doctor or the aircraft
workers if a doctors not onboard will deliver the woman's baby with her
husband he'll do this using very basic emergency equipment in a first-aid kit
on board and the umbilical cord will be cut likely by the father with a pair of
scissors which is in the first-aid kit but you're probably wondering now that
this baby's born what nationality are they obviously if you have a baby in
Germany then that baby has German citizenship and nationality or if you
have a baby in the USA then it has American nationality and citizenship but
what if you're above the sky and you don't know what country your baby was
even born in or maybe your baby was born above the ocean in between countries
does it not have any nationality well when it comes to giving birth on a plane
then the parents have some choice when it comes to their kids citizenship let's
say your baby is born in international waters in that situation the child will
likely take the citizenship of the mother after all there is no citizenship
for Atlantis that's another crazy thing is that it
depends on the airplane your baby is born on for example if you're born on a
British Airways flight you can claim British citizenship or if your baby is
born on an Emirates plane then you can choose it to have United Arab Emirates
citizenship and for some countries you can actually choose it to have the
citizenship you were going over at that time for example if the plane was going
over Canada then your baby could have Canadian citizenship so really the
mother and father have a lot of choice when it comes to choosing the
citizenship of their baby born on a plane one real life case if this
happened recently to a mother named Debbie Owen
Debbie was seven months pregnant and was flying on a be a flight from ivory coast
to London that was when all of a sudden she gave birth to her daughter Shona on
an airplane Shona is now one of the fifty known people worldwide who are sky
born Shona has a UK passport as her mother is English and on her birth
certificate it says Shona was born on an airplane ten miles south of
Sussex despite all the odds Shona was not born stillborn and was totally
healthy despite all the risk of having a baby on a plane but now it's time to
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