At only seven months pregnant, 17-year-old Abigail Amoretti was cleared to fly from Nicaragua to Miami. While in Mexican airspace, she’d gone to the bathroom. Dr. Raquel Rodriguez heard her moaning in pain and went to see what was wrong. It quickly became apparent that the girl was in labor.
According to Neuvo Radio Ya, Rodriguez had blankets spread across the floor in the plane’s aisle. She helped the girl remove her pants and found the umbilical cord was hanging out. The situation became even more dire when the female doctor inserted her hand to search for the baby’s head and found a pair of feet instead.
“The girl started to push, I started to give her directions on how she should push because she was pushing wrong since she was a first timer,” Rodríguez told the outlet.
By now, then scene had drawn the attention of another physician—Dr. Suamy Bermudez. Rodriguez, who only practices dermatology, let Bermudez take over. He pulled the baby out by her feet and found the cord wrapped around her neck.
“When the doctor takes the girl out, the girl gets stuck by the umbilical (cord). That was the hardest part. The doctor had to look for maneuvers to remove the head,” Rodriguez said. “She was completely limp and cyanotic, that is, she was purple from the suffering of all the time that the (mother) had been enduring the pain and the contractions.”
Rodriguez immediately went to work, giving the baby mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. Another doctor massaged the girl’s heart. After a few moments, the girl’s chest began to move. Five minutes later, she releases her first cry. From there, the doctors went to work on the mother.
“When the girl was pink and was breathing on her own and making movement with her little mouth, we had to separate the placenta,” Rodríguez said.
She stayed with mom and baby as the flight diverted to Cancun, which was closer than Miami. They had to navigate through a serious storm, but the flight arrived without any problems. Passengers cheered mom on as paramedics wheeled her off the flight. The baby was carried behind in an emergency blanket. Both were transported to Cancun General Hospital and are stable.
“Thank you very much to all those people who have prayed and have placed me and my girl in the hands of God, thank God I am fine,” Amoretti wrote on Facebook. ‘The girl is a little delicate but for God there is nothing impossible, he has been taking care of us and with the help of God I will soon come out of this process that is so hard on my life.”
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