Baby Born While On Approach to JFK
From today's Daily News:
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Baby is flying high after onboard birth
This is one crying infant who was actually welcome aboard a plane.
A baby boy was born on a British West Indies Airways flight from Trinidad to New York this week, with an assist from a midwife who helped deliver the child several thousand feet in the air.
Baby Bwee - whose name comes from the airline's nickname - arrived at 2 a.m. Tuesday, just 15 minutes before Flight 500 touched down at Kennedy Airport.
"The son has a very healthy appetite," said BWIA spokeswoman Dionne Ligoure. "All that flying must have made him very hungry."
She said the flight crew and midwife, Phyllis Robinson, who was traveling on her own, sprang into action when Candy Midtlyng, 33, went into in-flight labor.
"There was a real sense of joy once there was a cry from the baby," Ligoure said. "This really doesn't happen too often."
Midtlyng and Baby Bwee checked out of Jamaica Hospital in Queens yesterday, a hospital spokesman said.
Midtlyng is a Trinidad-born U.S. resident. The baby will be entitled to apply for U.S. citizenship, said Shawn Saucier, a spokesman for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
Jose Martinez
Originally published on July 21, 2005
