If Sarah Palin Would Have Told The Airline About Her Water

[rsmith6621]

.....water breaking.....labor pains...ect, that baby short of a private jet charter would have been born in Houston.No Dr note would have got her on that flight.

She put herself.....her baby and potentially 146 passengers in some sort of jeopardy....She like John McSame has issues with good judgment.....

Frankly as a passenger I would have been pissed if a diversion would have made me miss my connection or an importatnt business meeting.

Sarah is Selfish. I wonder now that she has hid Bristols pregnancy from the media how many more lies she is holding back

[SoCalDem]

1. They would have called 911, and had an ambulance take her

to the best hospital, where the baby would have been born...and/or, we would have a real record of what happened, to whom,, where and when...

[seabeyond]

2. she made a life and death decision with her own child and failed, horribly. n/t

[Maven]

3. She's ridiculous and fanatical.

Like every other RWer.

[rsmith6621]

4. I Wonder If Down Syndrome is a Cover

.....for her baby health condition....my wife and I were wondering if the long flight home caused an issue where the baby could have suffered some form of damage....It may not be Down at all.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. Some airlines (apparently Alaska isn't one of them)

have some restrictions on flying during pregnancy. For example:

http://www.aa.com/aa/i18nForward.do?p=/travelInformation/specialAssistance/travelingWhilePregnant.jsp&anchorEvent=false

and

http://www.nwa.com/travel/tips/tips.html#pregnancy

There are good reasons for this.

[RamboLiberal]

6. Anchorage Daily News has interesting account of the trip

Early Thursday -- she thinks it was around 4 a.m. Texas time -- she consulted with her doctor, family physician Cathy Baldwin-Johnson, who is based in the Valley and has delivered lots of babies, including Piper, Palin's 7-year-old.

Palin said she felt fine but had leaked amniotic fluid and also felt some contractions that seemed different from the false labor she had been having for months.

"I said I am going to stay for the day. I have a speech I was determined to give," Palin said. She gave the luncheon keynote address for the energy conference.

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Alaska Airlines has no such rule and leaves the decision to the woman and her doctor, said spokeswoman Caroline Boren. Palin was very pleasant to the gate agents and flight attendants, as always, Boren said.

"The stage of her pregnancy was not apparent by observation. She did not show any signs of distress," Boren said.

Palin never got big with this pregnancy. She said she didn't try to hide it but didn't feel a need to alert the airline, either.

http://www.adn.com/626/story/382864.html