• May 5, 2021 Hawaii Pacific Health
HONOLULU Lavinia “Lavi” Mounga had no idea a baby was coming when she went into labor on a flight from her home in Utah to Honolulu last week.
“I just didn t know I was pregnant, and then this guy just came out of nowhere,” Mounga said during a video interview with Hawaii Pacific Health.
The baby boy, Raymond Mounga, arrived early at just 29 weeks while mom was traveling to Hawaii for vacation with her family.
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 the plane and helped the new mother and baby.
Mom who gave birth on flight to Hawaii didn t know she was pregnant
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A woman gave birth prematurely on a flight to Hawaii. Luckily, 3 NICU nurses and a doctor were on board to help
Lauren M. Johnson, CNN • Published 4th May 2021
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(CNN) There were a lot of surprises on a flight to Hawaii last week, starting with the birth of a baby to a woman who didn t know she was pregnant.
Not only did there happen to be a doctor on board the Salt Lake City-Honolulu flight, but there were also three neonatal intensive care nurses and all of them immediately got to work. About halfway through the flight, there was an emergency call, and I ve experienced this before and usually they re pretty clear asking if there is a doctor on board, Hawaii Pacific Health family medicine physician Dr. Dale Glenn said in a news release from the hospital system. This call was not like this and it was fairly urgent. I let the flight attendant know that I m a physician and she said we have a woman having a ba