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Stuck With A Stranger’s Baby

Average: 3 (13 votes)

I was flying home from the states, seated next to a woman with a small baby. A couple of hours into the flight, the woman asked me to hold her baby for a second because she didn’t feel good. I was struggling with the squirming baby when I looked over and saw that she had passed out. The flight attendants found three doctors on board. They all came over to examine her and at first they couldn’t find a pulse. Then they discovered a very weak pulse. They needed access to her, so I had to move, with the baby, to another row. The examination and treatment continued for THREE HOURS before they decided to make an emergency landing. I held that baby the entire time – I didn’t know what else to do. As a bachelor with no kids, this was a whole new world to me. The woman ended up being OK. The baby was happily able to go back to his mom.

-- Ian L., London

You mean there were no other moms on flight??
Oh well, you got a crash course in parenting without
being one -- that'll help you decide what you wanna do in the future as far as that's concerned. ;)

sounds scary!

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