“It only happens in movies, and we’re lucky to witness this miracle.”
Missy Berberabe Umandel was recently on a Cebu Pacific flight from Dubai back to her home in the Philippines when her plane had to make an emergency landing.
The nurses helped successfully deliver the baby. Cebu Pacific, in a statement, said it was a little girl named Haven. The mother has not come forward.
"I can't tell for sure when she started having contractions because the majority of the passengers were asleep at that time — including myself," Umandel told BuzzFeed News. "At about 8:40 a.m. my mother woke me up, telling me that the lady was about to give birth."
After the woman gave birth, the plane made an emergency landing in India. "We arrived in India shortly after that," she said, "and remained there for three hours to deploy the mother, baby, and the baby's grandmother, as well as refuel and sanitize the area of birth, before flying to Philippines."
Umandel wrote about her experience on Facebook, where it was shared over 3,000 times. "Relatives and friends of the mother, who got hold of this viral post, thanked me for sharing it, as they didn't know the entire story just yet, since the mother and baby were left in India," Umandel said.
