{"id":22027,"date":"2015-10-15T21:17:25","date_gmt":"2015-10-16T04:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/los-angeles-doctor-delivers-baby-on-flight-from-taiwan\/"},"modified":"2015-10-15T21:17:25","modified_gmt":"2015-10-16T04:17:25","slug":"los-angeles-doctor-delivers-baby-on-flight-from-taiwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/los-angeles-doctor-delivers-baby-on-flight-from-taiwan\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles doctor delivers baby on flight from Taiwan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES \u2014 A Los Angeles doctor returning from her honeymoon ended up delivering a baby on an overseas flight when a fellow passenger went into early labor.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Angelica Zen, a resident physician at UCLA, says she didn\u2019t have much obstetrics training but didn\u2019t hesitate to help during the Air China flight from Taiwan to Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>Zen tells Los Angeles news station KABC-TV that flight attendants acted as stand-in nurses, and most passengers were asleep until the cabin lights came on for the delivery.<\/p>\n<p>The captain headed to the nearest airport, in Anchorage, Alaska. It\u2019s unclear if the birth occurred within a 12-mile radius of Alaska, which would make the baby a U.S. citizen by law.<\/p>\n<p>Zen says the baby looked healthy and the mother was happy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES \u2014 A Los Angeles doctor returning from her honeymoon ended up delivering a baby on an overseas flight when a fellow passenger went into early labor. Dr. Angelica Zen, a resident physician at UCLA, says she didn\u2019t have much obstetrics training but didn\u2019t hesitate to help during the Air China flight from Taiwan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-22027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22027"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=22027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}