{"id":2248,"date":"2016-12-20T00:39:12","date_gmt":"2016-12-20T00:39:12","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-12-20T00:39:12","modified_gmt":"2016-12-20T00:39:12","slug":"woman-gives-birth-on-dubai-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/dubai\/en\/news\/woman-gives-birth-on-dubai-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman Gives Birth on Dubai Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"c-adunit c-adunit--mpu\">\n<div id=\"mpu\" class=\"c-adunit__container\"> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>A\u00a0Philippine Airlines\u00a0flight\u00a0from Dubai to Manila was diverted when a woman on board went into labour.<\/p>\n<p>The flight made its way\u00a0to Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in Hyderabad, India, so Mary Grace Alejandro, 40,\u00a0could receive medical care, after giving\u00a0birth\u00a0on board the jetliner.<\/p>\n<p>Mary, originally from the Philippines but currently working in Dubai, was travelling with her 16-year-old son, when she went into labour. Crew announced to all passengers that the flight would be landing in India so she could seek medical attention. Mary gave birth during the flight to a baby girl, who was born prematurely at seven months.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The family were rushed to hospital, where Mary and the baby are in a stable condition, soon to be joined by Mary&#8217;s sister and husband.<\/p>\n<p><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><the baby=\"\" girl=\"\" is=\"\" currently=\"\" on=\"\" ventilator=\"\" support=\"\" and=\"\" under=\"\" observation later officials=\"\" said=\"\" the=\"\" infant=\"\" was=\"\" alright=\"\" projected=\"\" to=\"\" have=\"\" full=\"\" recovery=\"\" in=\"\" six=\"\" weeks.><\/the><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lovindubai.com\/announcements\/inaugural-flight-takes-off-from-dubais-new-7-star-airport\">Inaugural flight takes off from Dubai&#8217;s new 7-star airport<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"c-adunit c-adunit--mpu_mid\">\n<div id=\"mpu_mid\" class=\"c-adunit__container\"> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A\u00a0Philippine Airlines\u00a0flight\u00a0from Dubai to Manila was diverted when a woman on board went into labour. The flight made its way\u00a0to Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in Hyderabad, India, so Mary Grace Alejandro, 40,\u00a0could receive medical care, after giving\u00a0birth\u00a0on board the jetliner. Mary, originally from the Philippines but currently working in Dubai, was travelling with her 16-year-old &hellip; ","protected":false},"author":453,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"acf":{"legacy_image":"https:\/\/cloud.lovindubai.com\/images\/uploads\/2016\/04\/_relatedEntryImage2x\/Screen-Shot-2016-04-17-at-14.43.06.png?mtime=20160417144332","legacy_full_image":"https:\/\/cloud.lovindubai.com\/images\/uploads\/2016\/04\/_featuredImage\/Screen-Shot-2016-04-17-at-14.43.06.png?mtime=20160417144332 880w","legacy_meta_tags":"<title>Woman Gives Birth on Dubai Flight - Lovin Dubai<\/title><meta name=\"description\" content=\"A Philippine Airlines flight from Dubai to Manila was diverted when a woman on board went into labour.The flight made its way to Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in Hyderabad, India, so Mary Grace Alejandro, 40, could receive medical care, after giving birth on board the jetliner.\">\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/lovindubai.com\/news\/woman-gives-birth-on-dubai-flight\">\n<!-- <link rel=\"amphtml\" href=\"https:\/\/lovindubai.com\/news\/woman-gives-birth-on-dubai-flight\/amp\">\n --><meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Woman Gives Birth on Dubai Flight\">\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\">\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/lovindubai.com\/news\/woman-gives-birth-on-dubai-flight\">\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Baby girl is born during the journey\">\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/cloud.lovindubai.com\/images\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Screen-Shot-2016-04-17-at-14.43.06.png?mtime=20160417144332\">\n<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"883\">\n<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"441\">\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"photo\">\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"lovindubai\">\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Woman Gives Birth on Dubai Flight\">\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"\">\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"    A Philippine Airlines flight from Dubai to Manila was diverted when a woman on board went into labour.The flight made its way to Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in Hyderabad, India, so Mary Grace Alejandro, 40, could receive medical care, after giving birth on board the jetliner.\n\">\n<meta name=\"twitter:url\" content=\"https:\/\/lovindubai.com\/news\/woman-gives-birth-on-dubai-flight\">\n<meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/cloud.lovindubai.com\/images\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Screen-Shot-2016-04-17-at-14.43.06.png?mtime=20160417144332\">\n"},"image_feature":null,"author_name":"hello@lovindubai.com","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/dubai\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2248"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/dubai\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/dubai\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/dubai\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/453"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/dubai\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/dubai\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/dubai\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/dubai\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/dubai\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}