Delivery in a Plane a Russian Stewardess Tells

A week after helping a woman give birth in full flight, a Russian Stewardess flight attendant told the story of this happy event, and detailed the management of a birth by plane.

On July 7, the Russian airline Ural Airlines shared on Facebook the story of an unexpected birth. A young woman named Svetlana gave birth to a baby boy on a flight from Osh, Kyrgyzstan to Yekaterinburg, Russia.

Quickly, the crew had to improvise midwives and obstetricians to help the young woman to become a mother. Fortunately, Tatyana Yurieva, one of the flight attendants on board the flight, was not at her first delivery:
the Russian had first practiced as a doctor before embarking on aviation, and had already helped a woman to give birth urgently in an ambulance. But aboard a plane, things are very different, she tells the Russian media Ria.

"Each flight attendant has an initial training, where there is a first aid course, including instruction on how to assist a delivery on board. It's detailed in the first aid kit, but it's only theory, in practice, it is very rare to be faced with such a situation ", details the stewardess. "For the entire crew, including the drivers, it was a first," says Tatiana. The hostess recalls that most airlines require pregnant women a medical certificate stating that they can travel by plane without problem. But despite this, it happens that an untimely or unexpected birth takes place, and in this case the crew has no choice but to face it, and to manage at best so that everything goes well , which is usually the case.

Because often a doctor, a nurse or a midwife is luckily on board the crew, and lends a hand to hostesses and stewards. In the case of young Svetlana, everything went very quickly, since it gave birth ten minutes after losing the waters, without even feeling the contractions! While the crew was helping the young woman give birth, the captain and the pilots contacted Och airport, that they had left only a few minutes earlier, to turn around and arrange the support. of the mother and her baby.

"The passengers were very understanding," says Tatiana, "no one complained, on the contrary, we had already begun to follow the life of a baby. We called the hospital to make sure everything was going well, and in turn the obstetrics department thanked us for our work, "said the stewardess.

Born prematurely in the 29th week of pregnancy, the little boy of only 2.5kg was named Uralbek, in tribute to the name of the airline that worked on his birth.