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Alahna Kindred

Woman gave birth 'unexpectedly' on plane as flight attendants help deliver baby girl

A woman "unexpectedly" gave birth mid-flight as a flight attendant helped deliver the baby.

Frontier Airlines shared an image of the baby on Facebook after the mum suddenly went into labour on the US flight from Denver, Colorado to Orlando, Florida.

The airline flight attendant Diana Giraldo helped the mum to the loo at the back of the plane and helped deliver the baby girl - which has been given the middle name Sky.

The plane made a stop in Pensacola, Florida where paramedics were waiting to help the mum and her baby.

Captain Chris Nye said in a post on Facebook: "Diana again went above and beyond after the completion of the flight to coordinate our return to Orlando.

“The whole crew really did a great job. I transferred controls and flying duties to my First Officer as I coordinated the diversion.

"Dispatch did a great job as well by suggesting Pensacola Airport and getting a gate and paramedics ready for us.

"This was a job well done, and I was happy to see everyone working together to successfully deliver a newborn on an aircraft!"

Earlier this year, The Mirror reported how an airline passenger gave birth at 30,000 feet during a transatlantic flight.

The new mum was not due until the end of February but suddenly went into labour during an 11-hour United Airlines flight between Accra, Ghana, and Washington, DC.

Dr Stephen Ansah-Addo, who was heading home to the US, teamed up with a medically-trained member of the cabin crew and a nurse to deliver the baby boy in business class.

But when it came to cutting the umbilical cord the makeshift midwives didn't have any clamps so used string.

Paramedics were waiting to take the exhausted mum and her child to a local hospital when the flight landed at Dulles International Airport.

The airline had also arranged for an employee to greet the mum with a balloon and a card that read "On behalf of the United team at Washington Dulles, congratulations on your baby boy!"

Dr Ansah-Addo - who works as a dermatology resident at the University of Michigan - responded to calls from the cabin crew for a doctor.

He told ABC News: "I couldn’t believe it was happening. But I was trying to stay calm.

"This is someone that really needed help, because there was nobody else there. This is the kind of medicine where you can make a difference in people’s lives."

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