Created: May 03, 2021 06:15 PM
HONOLULU (AP) - A doctor and a team of neonatal medical professionals were in the right place at the right time - helping a Utah woman deliver her baby onboard an hourslong flight to Hawaii.
Lavinia Lavi Mounga was traveling from Salt Lake City to Hawaii on April 28 for a family vacation when she gave birth to her son, Raymond, at just 29 weeks gestation.
Dr. Dale Glenn, a Hawaii Pacific Health family medicine physician, along with Lani Bamfield, Amanda Beeding and Mimi Ho - neonatal intensive care unit nurses from North Kansas City Hospital - were also on board.
Woman gives birth on flight from Utah to Hawaii
Updated May 04, 2021;
A doctor and a team of neonatal medical professionals were in the right place at the right time helping a Utah woman deliver her baby onboard an hourslong flight to Hawaii.
Lavinia “Lavi” Mounga was traveling from Salt Lake City to Hawaii on April 28 for a family vacation when she gave birth to her son, Raymond, at just 29 weeks gestation.
Dr. Dale Glenn, a Hawaii Pacific Health family medicine physician, along with Lani Bamfield, Amanda Beeding and Mimi Ho neonatal intensive care unit nurses from North Kansas City Hospital were also on board.
Who is the woman who gave birth on a flight to Hawaii?
Updated: May 4 2021, 8:49 ET
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A WOMAN went into labor while on a Delta flight from Utah to Honolulu, Hawaii on April 28.
Luckily the mother was treated by a doctor and three neonatal nurses who happened to be onboard the same flight.
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Who is the woman who gave birth on a flight to Hawaii?
Lavinia Lavi Mounga was traveling from Salt Lake City to Honolulu on a Delta flight when she went into labor at 29 weeks on April 28.
Mounga gave birth to a health baby boy, Raymond Mounga.
HONOLULU (AP) â A doctor and a team of neonatal medical professionals were in the right place at the right time â helping a Utah woman deliver her baby onboard an hourslong flight to Hawaii.
Lavinia âLaviâ Mounga was traveling from Salt Lake City to Hawaii on April 28 for a family vacation when she gave birth to her son, Raymond, at just 29 weeks gestation.
Dr. Dale Glenn, a Hawaii Pacific Health family medicine physician, along with Lani Bamfield, Amanda Beeding and Mimi Ho â neonatal intensive care unit nurses from North Kansas City Hospital â were also on board.
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âAbout halfway through the flight, there was an emergency call, and Iâve experienced this before and usually theyâre pretty clear asking if there is a doctor on board,â Glenn said in a Hawaii Pacific Health press release. âThis call was not like this and it was fairly urgent.â
Deseret News Dan Rascone, KSL
KSL-TV
An Orem woman had the surprise of her life while flying from Salt Lake City to Hawaii for a family vacation.
On April 28, thousands of feet above the Pacific Ocean, 38-year-old Lavinia “Lavi” Mounga gave birth to a baby boy.
And she had no idea she was even pregnant.
“It was a shock to myself and everybody on the plane,” Mounga said with a laugh.
Mounga said she experienced the “weirdest pain” and went to the bathroom and passed out only to wake up to see a baby in her arms.
“I open my eyes and I look down and I really don’t know what I saw, but I put my hand down and I picked it up and it was a baby,” she said.