She gave birth in flight and surprised everyone with the unusual name she had chosen for her baby at the time

A woman gave birth in flight from New York to the Dominican Republic and the video of the moment went viral on TikTok.

Kendalee Rhoden26 years old, he recorded everything that happened while his sister Kendria, 21, was trying to get her little one into the back of the American Airlines plane they were on. The two Americans were going on vacation to the Caribbean country.

The mother took off because her doctors told her she was going to give birth much later. I didn’t know the delivery would come this soon.

The one who warned the airline staff that Kendria would have her baby at any moment was Kendalee. The young woman pressed the panic button when she saw that her sister was in trouble. “I kept asking her if she was sure until she stood up, and her whole seat was soaking wet!” Old Rhoden said.

Kendria noted that the crew cabin was a “great help”. The labor lasted about half an hour.

“She was taken to the back of the plane and after an extremely stressful 20 minutes, it was announced that we had a new passenger on board,” said Kendalee.

The boy’s name surprised everyone present, as it was chosen by his mother in the middle of the flight and is linked to the situation he had to go through. is Skylen Kavon-Air Francis. “Cielo” in Spanish means “paradise” and “Aria”, “air”.

As soon as they landed in the Dominican, the little over one kilogram baby spent his first four days in a neonatal intensive care unit while his family worked out his nationality at the embassy so he could return to the United States. .

Eventually, the Rhodens were able to get Skylen an emergency passport listing her place of birth as “pending”.

Kendria and Skylen stayed in the Dominican Republic for a few weeks and returned to the United States in good health, the family confirmed to KKTV.

The baby was born in mid-September, when Kendalee uploaded the video to TikTok. There, the clip already accumulates more than a million plays.

Being born on a plane, a nice theme

Skylen is a special child because she is one of the few born on a plane since 1929, when commercial flights were created. As of 2018, only 76 births had been recorded on airplanes.

Airlines go to great lengths to make sure babies aren’t born on flights, but when they have deliveries like Kendria’s, which are way ahead of schedule, there’s nothing they can do.

Depending on the company, some pregnant women who have been pregnant for more than 36 weeks cannot board a plane. Other airlines do not sell tickets to women who are past 28 weeks and do not have medical clearance. Some directly advise against traveling.

The nationality of the boy or girl depends on the country they were born in or the airline they travel to. In these, as a fictitious territory, the laws of their country of origin govern even if they do not fly over it.

Any child born on US soil, overflown or not, automatically receives US citizenship.

France, Spain and the United Kingdom, on the other hand, are governed by the principle “ius sanguinis” (right to blood), which establishes that the newborn, wherever he is born, will have the nationality of his parents.