Woman gives birth aboard flight from Philippines

A woman gives birth to a healthy baby boy on a flight from the Philippines to San Francisco. KNTV's Traci Grant reports.

By Joy Jernigan, senior travel editor

UPDATED 9 a.m. PDT: A woman gave birth to a healthy baby boy aboard a Philippine Airlines flight from Manila to San Francisco on?Monday, the airline said in a news release.

?Aida Alamillo, 41, a passenger aboard Flight 104, told NBC-TV affiliate KNTV?that she was due to give birth Sept. 28 but was cleared to fly by her doctor in the Philippines and Philippine Airlines medical personal. ??

Alamilllo said she never expected to go into labor on the plane. She was traveling with her 13-year-old son, whom she said alerted flight attendants that she was experiencing contractions. She was led to a private spot in a business class cabin on the plane's upper deck, where she gave birth at 3:25 p.m. PDT with the assistance of three nurses on board and several cabin crew members just a few hours before the plane landed.

In her flight incident report, flight purser Antonia Casta?eda described the newborn as having "good skin color." She wrote that the baby gave a "loud cry" upon?his birth, prompting a cheer from passengers,?and shortly thereafter "started to breast feed."?Philippine Airlines'?cabin crew are trained in safety procedures, including handling in-flight childbirths.

Alamillo, now a mother of four, said that although this was her most unusual delivery, it was the easiest. ?It?s like 15 minutes,? she said.

San Francisco International Airport spokesman Michael McCarron said that in-flight births are very unusual. ?In my 20 plus years here, I think I can count on one hand the number of times we?ve had a baby born in-flight,? he told NBC News. ?It?s normally a transoceanic flight, it?s a very long flight, where they can?t divert any place else.?

The mother and newborn were met by an ambulance and a team of paramedics upon landing in San Francisco at 7:27 p.m. and were?transported to Mills Peninsula Medical Center in Burlingame. On Tuesday, both mother and the newborn, Kevin Raymar Francisco Domingo, were doing fine.

Alamillo said she was on her way to Boston to take care of her ailing father. The family had recently received visas allowing them to live in the United States.

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