{"id":49199,"date":"2015-05-14T09:41:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-14T01:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=49199"},"modified":"2015-05-14T09:41:00","modified_gmt":"2015-05-14T01:41:00","slug":"victoria-womans-surprise-delivery-delights-passengers-en-route-to-tokyo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/05\/14\/victoria-womans-surprise-delivery-delights-passengers-en-route-to-tokyo\/","title":{"rendered":"Victoria woman’s surprise delivery delights passengers en route to Tokyo"},"content":{"rendered":"
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VANCOUVER — The pregnancy test came back negative, so the couple from Victoria dismissed the rumblings inside Ada Guan’s stomach as a blip.<\/p>\n

On a flight from Calgary to Tokyo just three weeks later, that blip revealed itself to be a baby bump when the 23-year-old went into labour high above the Pacific Ocean.<\/p>\n

A healthy girl was born this weekend to the surprise and jubilation of her unsuspecting first-time parents — and a planeload of passengers aboard an Air Canada flight.<\/p>\n

“Had she known she was in her third trimester, she definitely would not have gotten on that plane,” said new grandmother Sandra Branch, from her home in Penticton, B.C.<\/p>\n

“They were all excited about going and touring Japan, and then this pops out.”<\/p>\n

Appropriately, baby Chloe Grace arrived on Mother’s Day. Her delivery prompted cheers and applause inside the soaring aircraft.<\/p>\n

“Everybody was clapping,” a brightly smiling woman told TV station FNN News in Japanese, as she disembarked at Narita Airport.<\/p>\n

“The baby was so cute. A little girl with big eyes!”<\/p>\n

Another passenger said that Guan, 23, was shuttled from economy to business class when she was suddenly struck by dreadful pains.<\/p>\n

The flight crew paged for any physicians on board and found a volunteer who tended to Guan for about an hour. The plane landed 30 minutes early after gaining priority from traffic controllers.<\/p>\n

Video footage shows air attendants pushing Guan off the plane on a stretcher, followed by her baseball cap-wearing boyfriend. Wesley Branch, 24, stops to wave while carrying the tot swaddled in a white blanket.<\/p>\n

“She told me something fell out of me, and I lifted out her pants and I seen a head, and then I heard ‘waaa,'” Branch later told Global News from Japan. “I’m like, ‘Oh my God, I think we have a kid.’\u00a0It was the biggest surprise of my life.”<\/p>\n

The new parents, who met while online dating about one year ago, were whisked to a Japanese hospital. By Tuesday they had moved to a nearby hotel because the bill was growing, said Sandra Branch.<\/p>\n

They planned to meet with officials from the Canadian Embassy on Wednesday to obtain a birth certificate and other documentation necessary for the journey home.<\/p>\n

She said Guan had described on-and-off tummy pains, and even noticed some minor weight gain in the same area. But the couple could only assume the negative test meant she had perhaps miscarried.<\/p>\n

“I was in total shock when he called me … and he said, ‘I’ve got something to tell you mom,'” recalled Sandra Branch.<\/p>\n

“He said, ‘You’re a grandma.’ I said, ‘What? She wasn’t even pregnant.’ I\u00a0said to him, ‘You probably have a better chance of winning the lottery.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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