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Subject: Re: Baby born in midair on London to Boston flight Posted on: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 09:40:30 -0700



Magda wrote:

> On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 02:20:14 -0400, in rec.travel.europe, nobody
> arranged some electrons, so they looked like this:
>
> ... Kent_AOL wrote:
> ... > A pregnancy WILL result in labor and WILL require more medical
> ... > attention than a flight attendent can give.
> ...
> ... Oh, come on, I've seen baby births on US sitcom television, and all they
> ... need to do is to boil some water (for some reason which is never
> ... mentioned)
>
> Apparently it's to sterilise rags. Why would they get anywhere near the baby with boiling
> hot rags is yet another mystery.

Actually, I think telling him to boil water was a ploy to
keep the dithering husband out of the way while the women
got on with the business at hand! (Came in handy for a nice
cuppa when the labour was over, too.)