Question: What is the citizenship of a baby born on an airplane between Amsterdam and Boston? 

That’s what happened this morning, according to a story published on line today on the Boston Globe web site.  A Ugandan woman gave birth to a baby girl somewhere over Canada while on board Northwest Flight 59.

Two doctors sprang into action and laid her across a row of seats while two passengers held up blankets to create a delivery room. (One of the doctors, Dr. Natarajan Raman, is a radiology oncologist from Minneapolis.)

Her baby, a 6 1/2 pound girl she named Sasha, was born at about 9 a.m. when the doctors snipped the umbilical cord, the entire plane erupted in applause.

Answer: Canada

And Happy New Year!!    

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