Can a 7th month pregnant woman have her water break and travel 5 hrs on a plane? Air pressure is not allowed.?

Question

I am astounded by the STORY of Sarah Palin's 5th birth. It is unbelievable that a 7 month pregnant woman would not go straight to the hospital after her water broke while she was in Texas. How could you get in a plane to Alaska instead of rushing to the nearest hospital? The air pressure of the airplane is not allowed for late term pregnancy.

Answer 1

no, I've never been pregnant but even I know once the water breaks, the only place you need to be rushed to is the ER

and it was not a 5 hr flight it was 8 hrs, that woman is a fraud

Answer 2

this womqn actually claims to be pro life

Answer 3

As I have said b4.....you guys have stooped to a new low.

After all this attacking and starting rumors that this child belongs to her oldest daughter......is really low.

The democratic party has lost some one who did not mind voting for Dem's in the past, but now the picture in really clear as far a what you are all about......and this is sad.  Teh entire party and its supportes should be ashamed of themselves, and this will back fire on you.

Answer 4

you can be cleared for air travel in late pregnancy..and early babies sometimes surprise people i have a friend that had one at the 30 week mark..he was fine..didnt spend any time in the hospital other than the three days at the time that was required..he was small but everything was functioning fine...why drag her daughter thru the mud....lets talk about obamas ugly kids...is that ok? we can all bash on other people

Answer 5

Well,that was her decision. Being as how she has had four other children that look ok to me,i would not worry about it.

Answer 6

lol, its not her Baby, its her Daughters.

Answer 7

Yes, apparently, although Sarah Palin was actually 8 months pregnant at the time.  Each airline makes their own rules on allowing or disallowing pregnant women.   Alaska Airlines has no such rule and thinks it should be up to the woman and her medical provider (a pro-choice position to be sure).

    

The Governor, a vocal anti-choice Republican, chose to return to Alaska to have her 5th child despite the following risk factors:

1.  She was leaking amniotic fluid (her water broke) increasing the risk of infection.

2.  She was 44 years old, a risky age for childbirth.

3.  The baby she was carrying had known "special challenges" (down syndrome)

4.  The child was one full month premature.

5.  She flew from Texas to Alaska on a commercial airline (Alaska Airlines) while while leaking amniotic fluid, a 10 or more hour flight depending on the length and location of her layover.

6.  She did not inform any of the airline staff of her condition.

However, Gregg Erickson, a reporter from the Anchorage Daily News, told the Daily Kos that the rumors that she was never pregnant had been investigated and debunked.  

So it appears that these behaviors are not those of a person faking/covering up a pregnancy but merely those of someone with terrible, terrible judgment.

Answer 8

You can't.

Here's the deal:

don't know if she faked her pregnancy, but I will say this:

Her doctor would not have given her advice one way or the other until he had confirmed that she was really leaking amniotic fluid. There's no way to be sure without doing the quick swab test. Discharge can get heavy in late pregnancy, so sometimes it's difficult to tell. It's standard procedure, my daughter was full term, and I still got the test as soon as I was admitted. If you think you are leaking amniotic fluid before 36 weeks, it is standard procedure to have you checked either in the office or at L&D. I have known several women who had scares, and they were always checked to be sure.

Furthermore, I have an extremely difficult time believing that her doctor, given that she was SO early, would have just 'let her stay' and continue life as usual. They would have sent her straight to the ER, tested for amniotic fluid, and held her, trying to stop labor-and most likely administering antibiotics. They also would have wanted to give a series of steroid shots to help develop the premature child's lungs in case they were unable to stop labor. This all sounds very fishy to me.

FURHTERMORE-a baby born that early would spend a good 4-8 weeks in the NICU. At the absolute least, I think she is either cold hearted or overly ambitious for leaving her newborn in the NICU the day after he was born to return to work.

Answer 9

But Sarah says knew she was carrying a child with Downs Syndrome. She says she received the test results in December. Yet she flew for many hours, didn't go to a hospital in Fort Worth or Seattle, and didn't show any signs of being pregnant or discomfort, according to the airline staff on her flight. A pregnant mom who is leaking amniotic fluid needs to be seen by a doctor, particularly if they're going to do something risky like flying in an airplane for 10 hours. To top if off, she flew in a plane, according to her, having leaked amniotic fluid and carrying a child who was at very high risk of birthing complications.

If it's her child she was reckless. If it's not her child, then she has really done wrong by her daughter because by running for VP this was certain to be gone over with a fine tooth comb.

Answer 10

Air travel is not prohibited for people in their last trimester of pregnancy it depends on the pregnancy and the physician number #1.  7 months of pregnancy is 28 weeks to 31 weeks of pregnancy, that is pre-term.  I highly doubt you have your story straight,  I would really like to know where you got your information?  

Finally what is your point?  Are you judging someones actions as like in this case because you want to bash her for not having an abortion?  I just think you have no business bashing someone for their actions without knowing why they did what they did and the media lies!  

Answer 11

When your water breaks naturally (without help from a doctor), it isn't usually some huge gush like they show in the movies

When my water 'broke', it was just a slow leak (which is the norm), I called the doctor, he said it was normal and that I should call back when contractions started and got close together...My water leaked for 12 HOURS before contractions started to get close together, then I went to the hospital and had my baby, no problems.

Those (vicious, uneducated people) who say the baby isn't hers obviously aren't aware that the risk factor for having a baby with Down's Syndrome is high after the age of 40...The reason they knew the baby would have Down's Syndrome before it was born is that they did a test for it BECAUSE SHE WAS OVER 40.

Surely you people can come up with something better than this.

Answer 12

Water breaking usually means baby's ready to deliver.  For me that meant less than 10 minutes before the baby was completely out.  I could barely move, let alone walk or sit.  I traveled 16 inches to the bed and it felt like 1000 miles!  Take a plane?  Travel all the way to Alaska?  I'd say this is a miracle and should have been in every paper across the country!

Answer 13

Each pregnancy is different, but apparently, Mrs. Palin did not tell the airlines she was pregnant when she decided to fly back to Alaska.

http://www.newsminer.com/news/2008/apr/2...

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB12200261...

"Gov. Palin's opted to board a jet from Dallas in April while about to deliver a child. Gov. Palin, who was eight months pregnant, says she felt a few contractions shortly before she was to give a keynote speech to an energy summit of governors in Dallas. But she says she went ahead with it after her doctor in Alaska advised her to put her feet up to rest. "I was not going to miss that speech," she says.

She rushed so quickly from the podium afterwards that Texas Gov. Rick Perry nervously asked if she was about to deliver the baby then. She made it to the airport, and gave birth hours after landing in Anchorage to Trig, who is diagnosed with Down Syndrome. "Maybe they shouldn't have let me fly, but I wasn't showing much so they didn't know," she says."

Answer 14

Yes a women may travel as many hours as she wants, foolish and stupid is a mother to risk her child's life! Dallas has some of the best medical services in the world! Makes me question her wisdom and the decisions she would make as VP/ President. The Brooklyn and bridge to Nowhere is for sale!

Answer 15

I traveled in a plane a few weeks before my first son was born and there were no problems.  I haven't read the details of her medical history, do you have a link for that ?

Answer 16

Try the Pregnancy forum...you might get better answers to this question.  good luck.

Answer 17

It only makes sense if it was really her grandson and she wasn't pregnant at all. I really want to believe there is a rational explanation to all of this and this is just stupid gossip, but nobody has put forward an alternative explanation that deals with all the inconsistencies of her fifth child other then she was covering up for her teenage pregnant daughter.