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A Nigerian woman, identified as Oyindamola Akinyera on Instagram, gave birth to a baby girl on a Qatar Airways flight from Lagos to Brazil on Saturday.
Akinyera disclosed this in a post on her Instagram page on Wednesday, explaining that she was traveling with her husband, David, to their “honeymoon and baby-moon” destination and had been cleared for air travel by her doctor.
However, a few hours into the connecting flight from Doha to Brazil, she began experiencing what she thought were regular pregnancy backaches.
Her post partly read, “A few hours later, we get to Doha, explore the grounds; everything is great, and we’re having the best time.. until we get on the connecting flight to Brazil.
“Few hours into the flight and I start having what I thought were regular pregnancy backaches. I had been flying for hours, so it made sense. I thought it was something (sic) sleep could fix since we had hours till landing. The air hostesses gave me the princess treatment, laid my bed and I was ready to finally snooze.
“The waves of discomfort continued in my lower back, and to be safe, I had one of the air hostesses take my vitals. We were good. No signs of labour!”
She added that as they were crossing the Atlantic, she felt heavily constipated and needed to use the restroom, so she asked her husband to come with her.
“Next thing, I take one big push and I pee instead—or so I thought. My water had broken. I didn’t even realise I was in labour. I just kept saying, ‘I need to sleep’ and would casually nod off (mid labour?)
“The pains kept waking me up, and the Qatarairlines air hostesses (my personal midwives) sprung into action,” she wrote.
