Kicker - The Mile High delivery club

MARY REICHARD, HOST: So you’re on an airplane in flight and this question comes over the intercom: Is there a doctor on board?

Diana Giraldo is a flight attendant on Frontier Airlines. She asked that question, and then rolled up her sleeves to help a very pregnant passenger. Shakeria Martin.

Martin was on a flight from Dallas to Orlando when she awoke from a nap with strong contractions.

She told NBC’s Today Show:

MARTIN: This cannot be — there’s no way I could just have this baby on the plane.

But her baby had other plans.

Giraldo escorted her to the bathroom at the back of the plane and “two big pushes” later, baby Jada-Lynn Sky Martin arrived.

Giraldo said the baby didn’t appear to be breathing at first. So she used some light compressions and an oxygen mask.

GIRALDO: After a while, she started reacting and getting color back, and she started kind of like gargling a little bit and moving, which was a happy moment for all of us.

Indeed it was.

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