Woman Who Didn’t Know She Was Pregnant Gives Birth on Flight
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iStock Editorial/Thinkstock(TOKYO) — Baby Chloe made an unscheduled arrival when her mother went into labor aboard a flight to Tokyo.
Ada Guan had no idea she was pregnant when she boarded a flight from Calgary, Canada to Tokyo with her boyfriend, Michael Branch — but she went into labor hours later somewhere above the Pacific Ocean, according to CTV News, whose Vancouver station spoke to the baby’s grandparents.
Sandra Branch, the baby’s paternal grandmother, told CTV she got the emotional call from her son on Mother’s Day.
“I said, ‘What? How could this happen? She wasn’t pregnant!'” Sandra Branch said. “Well, it turns out she was.”
Air Canada was not immediately available for comment, but the airline tweeted the following on Sunday: “Happy #MothersDay! We wish mother and daughter well as they arrived in Tokyo safe and sound on AC009 today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eN3–B4CwsA“
According to CTV, the baby was born at about 37 weeks. Guan gave birth in first class with the help of a doctor who happened to be on the same flight.
Guan, 23, had recently been to her physician for a routine checkup, but the doctor did not detect the pregnancy, according to the Calgary Sun. And she had taken a pregnancy test that came back negative, according to the paper.
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