Baby on board! Incredible moment Brit doctor helps pregnant Jordanian passenger give birth mid-flight after she went into labour on London-bound Wizz Air jet: Mother and baby in ‘good condition’ after plane diverts to Italy

A British doctor on board a Wizz Air flight from Jordan to London helped deliver a baby in mid-air before the plane had to land in Italy.

Hassan Khan, 28, revealed that he was flying home from a holiday in Amman on Saturday morning when the flight crew called for a doctor.

According to the doctor who works at Basildon Hospital, the expectant mother was found lying on the floor outside the cockpit after her waters broke.

Hassan clambered over and said the Jordanian woman did not speak English and that another passenger had to translate during the delivery.

“I told the flight attendants what equipment I needed – including an oxygen mask, an umbilical cord clamp and a stethoscope – none of which of course they had on the plane,” Hassan told the BBC.

The four-year-old doctor (pictured third from left) works at Basildon Hospital, Essex, and fortunately had experience in newborn resuscitation

He revealed that he had only used towels during the girl’s ‘miraculous’ delivery.

The doctor of four years, who fortunately had experience in neonatal resuscitation, said he also managed to relax the panicked mother after reassuring her through the translator that he had worked with newborns before.

‘People said it was miraculous. I didn’t realize how important it was until I had a chance to process it all,” he explained.

Following the baby chaos, the Wizz Air plane was diverted to Brindisi airport in southern Italy so the 38-year-old mother and her baby could be taken to Perrino Hospital.

Hassan joked that he was late for his shift due to the unexpected distraction, but his employers were impressed by his quick thinking and wanted the full update.

“My consultant congratulated me and said it was a very good job,” he said.

According to a report from the online newspaper, Openthe baby was born when he was only seven months old.

The Wizz Air plane made an emergency landing in Italy so the mother and baby could go to hospital (via Shutterstock)

The hero doctor said the woman’s family informed him from the hospital and revealed that thanks to his help, both she and her baby were in good condition.

The girl’s parents, who they called Sama, told the local Italian newspaper Corriere del Mezzogiorno that she didn’t even need an incubator, despite being two months premature.

But this isn’t the first time a newborn has been delivered in the clouds.

In May of last year, 17-year-old Abigail Amoretti went into labor on a flight from Managua, Nicaragua, to Miami.

The newborn was struggling to breathe after a team of three doctors assisted in the delivery, but was fortunately able to breathe on his own after about three minutes of emergency resuscitation.

In October 2021, Kendria Rhoden, 21, gave birth to her son during a flight to the Dominican Republic.

The Connecticut healthcare worker was left in shcok when her waters broke and revealed she wasn’t expecting to give birth until the end of the month.

Medical support company MedAire reports that mid-air births occur in about one in 26 million passengers.

Dr. Paulo Alves, the company’s global medical director, said Conde Nast traveler in January: ‘In-flight births are very, very rare, and if you look at the cases, they were unexpected: these were premature babies.

He added that air birth comes with its own challenges.

“It’s not the best place to have your child for many reasons. First, the air is thinner, making it harder for the baby to breathe. It’s like having a premature child in Mexico City, height-wise.”

In addition, the likelihood of specialists being present to assist with delivery is extremely low, meaning complicated procedures such as caesarean sections are virtually impossible to perform, even if they are necessary for the safety of the mother and baby. Baby.