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Woman gives birth on a plane, gets a million air miles and a free baby.

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Missy Berberabe Umandel was flying from Dubai home to the Philippines when she was inconvenienced by a miracle. About five hours into the flight on Cebu Pacific Airlines, another passenger started having contractions. Luckily, there were two nurses on board, and the woman safely gave birth to a little girl named Haven.

“I can’t tell for sure when she started having contractions because the majority of the passengers were asleep at that time — including myself,” Umandel told BuzzFeed News. “At about 8:40 a.m. my mother woke me up, telling me that the lady was about to give birth.”

Had the most 'NORMAL' flight ever with Cebu Pacific Air. A woman near our seat gave birth to a healthy baby girl, on our...

Posted by Missy Berberabe Umandal on Sunday, August 14, 2016

Umandel broke down the story on Facebook, where it was shared over 4,000 times.

Here's the short version:

Had the most 'NORMAL' flight ever with Cebu Pacific Air. A woman near our seat gave birth to a healthy baby girl, on our flight from Dubai back to PH. We had to do an emergency landing in India to ensure the baby's safety. All flight attendants, pilots, and passengers were very attentive too. Very lucky baby.. since she was born in a Cebu Pac plane, she is awarded 1,000,000 Get Go Points from the airline (STILL pretty much the equivalent of free flights for a lifetime, I mean she could be living in the plane if she wished). Congratulations to the first-time Mom and Grandma! This is something you don't get to see everyday. It only happens in movies, and we're lucky to witness this miracle

And here's the version with all the deets, featuring just how inconvenient childbirth can make a flight.

*I would like to disclose that this might not be the EXACT story because I am a mere bystander. I am also sharing this story purely because I find it very inspiring, but I never intended it to go viral*


The lady started having contractions mid-flight, about 5 hours in going to the Philippines. She was set to give birth on October, so this came to a surprise, even to her Mother who picked her up from Dubai. For once in my life, I saw flight attendants, who are meant to always maintain their poise and composure, panic ever so slightly. Flight attendants started calling for medical assistance, and luckily, there were two nurses among the passengers. She was already crowning, so she was brought to the more spacious area in front of the plane. We only heard one semi-loud screech, and a few seconds later, there were tinier, cute screeches, and it was when we knew the baby was born. Luckily, she only had to push ONCE. Moments later, the woman got up to go back to her seat, baby in arms (mighty strong, I might say). There were 2 other babies with us in the front row, and one of the passengers had a suitcase full of infant clothes and necessities, which could not have come at a better time. The flight attendants took a shelf from the cabinets and filled it with mineral water, which became a makeshift wash basin to clean the baby in. It was immediately decided that an emergency landing in India was necessary to ensure the baby's health, as it was born 2 months earlier than expected.


We might have misheard the name, but it sounded like the baby would be named "Haven". Flight was delayed once again (what was supposed to be a 9-hour flight became roughly 18 hours), but no complaints.. everyone in that plane was blessed. To the woman, in the hopes she gets to read this: we understand you are resting and giving time to take care of your baby, but we are all hoping for your quick recovery and a lifetime of happiness to your beautiful child! And Mom, this experience made me appreciate you so so so much more than I already do. When my future children ask me what my greatest memory with my mother was, I would tell them of this extraordinary moment we shared.

On a side note, for those curious about the child's citizenship: there is an existing rule of when a child is born mid-air, the baby will hold citizenship of the country the plane lands on next. While this rule still applies in USA, it has been revoked in most countries, including the Philippines. Instead, this particular baby's birthplace is India, but she will still carry a Philippine passport (since Cebu Pacific is a Philippine airline). Her time of birth also follows India Standard time.

To make the mother's day even more exciting, the airline awarded her with ONE MILLION AIR MILES—presumably to thank her for going viral and raising the profile of the airline.

The staff of Cebu Pacific Air celebrated the miracle with a video.

And the CEO was super psyched to have a part in the miracle of life.

Who wouldn't want this crew welcoming them into the world?

CEO Lance Gokongwei said on the airline's Facebook page, “We are happy that both mother and daughter are doing well, and would like to commend our flight and cabin crew for handling the situation with utmost professionalism and efficiency. We also express our sincerest gratitude to the two volunteer nurses who helped ensure the baby’s safe delivery.”

Congratulations to Cebu Pacific for pulling off a birth in midair, and to the happy family on the air miles! (And also the baby.)

There's an app that lets you buy restaurants' leftovers and Shailene Woodley is a fan.

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Ethereal earth mother/actress Shailene Woodley is psyched about an app that lets you buy leftover food from restaurants, saving the good food from going to waste, while also leaving more room in landfills for inedible garbage.

Too Good To Go is an app in the UK that gives people the opportunity to buy leftovers from cafés and fancy eateries for as little as two British pounds (only about $2.60 in real American dollars)!

It's a brilliant idea because the food otherwise would go to waste, and of course the food finds a better home with humans than with the garbage.

“Food waste just seems like one of the dumbest problems we have in this world,” co-founder James Crummie told Business Green. “The restaurant industry is wasting about 600,000 tons of food each year, and in the U.K. alone there are one million people on emergency food parcels from food banks. Why do we have these two massive social issues that are completely connected, yet there is not much going on to address them?”

Imagine sharing a pizza with Shailene Woodley, even if it's not at the same time.

The statistics are startling: Teen Vogue reports that in the US, one in six households go hungry while 40% of restaurant food goes to waste.

Hopefully, Woodley's endorsement means the app will take off in the US, giving food to the people who need it most while making sure restaurants don't waste their resources. Even if you're a heartless capitalist, everyone wins!

Chrissy Teigen explains why she doesn’t give a crap about the Ryan Lochte incident.

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On Thursday, Brazilian officials revealed that U.S. Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte and three other athletes may have lied about being robbed at gunpoint in Rio. In fact, they seem to have been caught on video fighting with security at a gas station. As the inevitable media firestorm began, model Chrissy Teigen spoke up.

To clarify, she has nothing to do with either the Olympics or Syria, but is just a cool gal with opinions and 2.41 million Twitter followers she wants to use for good.

She linked to a New York Timesarticle about 5-year-old Omran Daqneesh of Aleppo, whose disturbing photo has brought renewed attention to the thousands of children killed and injured in Syria over the last five years.

She also angrily replied to a commenter who told her to stop tweeting and "go get actively involved."

Be warned, everyone.

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5 things you need to know about this Ryan Lochte drama.

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There's always drama at the Olympics, but usually it's during the events. The biggest news coming out of this year's Games is happening after the athletes involved have already finished competing. American swimmers Ryan Lochte, Gunnar Bentz, James Feigen, and Jack Conger are finding themselves in hot water after lying about getting robbed in Rio. #LochteGate has it all: mystery, international intrigue, hunks, and pee. Lots of pee.

What is the world coming to when you can't even trust a hunk?

1. First, HIC (hunk in charge) Ryan Lochte said he was robbed at gunpoint.

Ok so here's how it all started: On Sunday, four U.S. Olympic swimmers, Ryan Lochte, Jimmy Feigen, Jack Conger, and Gunnar Bentz, said they were pulled from a taxi in Rio and robbed at gunpoint by men pretending to be Brazilian police. Lochte told Billy Bush one of the robbers held a loaded gun right to his head and demanded money. He wouldn't lie to Billy Bush, right? Right?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4&v=8qyDZQh1UR4

2. Oops they lied.

Yep, that son of a "B" lied to sweet trusting little Billy Bush. On August 18, ABC broke the news that Lochte's whole dramatic tale was made up. He and his buddies were actually drunk, destroying property, and fighting with security at a gas station. Now this starts getting good.


3. Lochte and his boys peed all over the gas station too.

Exclusive footage of Lochte and the boys bringing shame to America.

According to the owner of the Barra da Tijuca gas station, Lochte, Bentz, Feigen, and Conger took a sweet whiz all over his station's walls. Besides destroying property, he said the group of rowdy swimmers were asked to use the bathroom at the gas station, but instead drained their main veins on the wall. "We even have images of one of the athlete's butts, as he is pulling up his pants," the owner said. I'd like to check out that video out a few hundred times, for detective work, but it hasn't been released yet. The only CCTV video that has been released so far is by ABC News, and it definitely shows the swimmers at the gas station.


4. Lochte made it back to the United States, but his pals weren't so lucky.

Lochte made it back to the US on Wednesday, but pals Jack Conger and Gunnar Bentz were pulled off of their flight from Rio de Janeiro and had their passports seized, officially turning this shit-storm into a diplomatic matter. The US committee told CNN that Brazilian authorities had removed the swimmers from the plane Wednesday night for questioning about the so-called "robbery."


5. They've lawyered up.

Not surprisingly, the Pee-Boyz got themselves some legal council. Jeff Ostrow, an attorney for Lochte, made a statement saying the four swimmers' accounts "are 95 percent consistent." United States Olympic Committee spokesman Patrick Sandusky said Lochte and his teammates "are cooperating with authorities and in the process of scheduling a time and place to provide further statements to the Brazilian authorities."

"All are represented by counsel and being appropriately supported by the USOC and the U.S. Consulate in Rio," he added.

This story continues to develop.

Watching #LochteGate like...

Dad accidentally eats four pot brownies, calls the cat a 'b**ch.'

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On August 16, Omaha police responded to a call about an accidental overdose, which ended up being a 53-year-old man who ate four pot brownies (thinking they were normal brownies) that his adult children had left in his car after borrowing it. Now dad was high as a kite and super pissed at the family cat.

Paramedics arrived to find the man medically fine (vital signs all normal and good), but a little off, behavior-wise: he was crawling on the ground, occasionally cursing, and calling the kitty a "bitch." Who knows, maybe it was a bitch. There's no denying some cats are.

The guy told EMTs that he felt like "he's trippin'" (probably because he pretty much was), but didn't want to be taken to the hospital, so they just put him to bed. End of story (unless the cat seeks REVENGE). The moral here is don't leave your pot brownies unattended, maybe don't eat four brownies at once no matter what kind they might be, and BE NICE TO YOUR CAT, because you never know.

Woman loses 160 pounds after doctor tells her it's the only way she'll get pregnant.

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Cassie Hurley always wanted to get pregnant. After two years of trying unsuccessfully, a doctor told her in 2010 that her weight (at that time, 324 pounds) could be the problem. Hurley had struggled with her weight for most of her life, and medical issues like an underactive thyroid gland and polycystic ovary syndrome weren't making weight loss any easier. But after hearing the doctor's advice, Hurley was determined to shed the pounds.

Hurley told the Daily Mail, "I have always wanted to be a mum for as long as I can remember. I really wanted to have babies." So she joined a gym, saw a dietician, and hired a personal trainer to help her reach her goal. She cut foods high in sugar ("any words ending in 'OSE'") from her diet, and started exercising five times a week.

After a year, she'd lost 68 pounds. After a lot of contemplation, she decided to have gastric sleeve surgery to lose more weight. She explained:

I was doing so well, but I wanted the weight to come off to have children. By 2011 our dream was still there. We did not want it to slip away. All I could think about was "this is going to help me have my kids. This is going to bring me so much closer to my dream."

She lost another 75 pounds thanks to the surgery (not immediately, duh), and a year and half later, Hurley learned she was pregnant. Just four months after the birth of her first child, she was pregnant with her second. She maintained the weight loss, motivating herself by maintaining an Instagram account called @losing_it_loving_it where she happily shows off the results of her hard work and dedication. Go Cassie!


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Adele is very sick and very sorry in this adorable apology video to her fans.

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Poor Adele! The singer caught a bad cold this week, which she pronounces "code" because she's just that adorably British (and probably has a very stuffy nose). Adele was so sick, she had to cancel her gig in Phoenix, Arizona Wednesday night. Not wanting to disappoint her fans, she posted this thoughtful apology video from her sick bed.

"I can't do my show tonight, my second show here," says a very red-nosed Adele. "I'm really, really sorry. My cold has gotten the better of me, and as you can hear, even if I did the show it wouldn't be very good."

Then she continues: "I'm really, really, really sorry to let anyone down."

Now that is an apology! She wraps up the video by promising to come back, and tweeted today that the gig has been rescheduled for November. This all proves that British people have impeccable manners, and also sound even more British when they're sick.

Mom reaches out to internet to replace her daughter with autism's beloved shirt. Internet comes through.

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Here's something nice that the internet did! Strangers online came through for Cami, a little girl with autism who needed a replica of her favorite shirt. Cami is fixated on her pink flower shirt. She loves it so much that she wore it out, so her mom enlisted the help of the internet to find another one.

On August 7, Deborah Grimshaw Skouson took to Facebook to see if anyone had an extra of that particular shirt—in any size—to add to her daughter's collection.

"She got her first one in kindergarten five years ago, and we have found four more since then, mostly on eBay. Her current one is almost unwearable, and eBay has gone dry,” Skouson wrote. "This is where you come in. We need another ‘pink flower shirt.’"

Okay friends and family, I need your help! As most of you know, my daughter Cami has autism. For the past 4-5 years, she...

Posted by Deborah Grimshaw Skouson on Sunday, August 7, 2016

The post has since gone viral. Over 4,000 people have shared it, and within a week, Cami received 78 (78!!!) replacement shirts. People have been putting in a lot of effort to help the family.

Fox 2 reported that a few friendly people even went so far as to contact Target (where the shirt was first purchased) on behalf of the family.

“Cami adores this shirt, and it brings her a lot of comfort and security, which is sometimes hard for her to come by in her chaotic little world,” her mom shared.

“I am so grateful for the kindness that my daughter has been shown,” she said. “People are inherently good and kind, and I’m glad I’ve been able to be a recipient of that kindness.”

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The funniest reactions to #LochteGate.

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Social media went berserk today when news broke that Ryan Lochte and three of his American teammates (Gunnar Bentz, James Feigen, and Jack Conger ) were allegedly lying when they said they were robbed at gunpoint. (Apparently they were actually busy peeing all over a gas station on the night of their supposed "robbery"). And so, #LochteGatewas born and subsequently took over the Twitter-sphere. Here are 15 of the funniest #LochteGate tweets.

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Rob Kardashian spent $13K on food delivery to satisfy Blac Chyna's pregnancy cravings.

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Sock salesman Rob Kardashian spent "like $13,000" on food delivery orders to satisfy his fiancée Blac Chyna's apparently insatiable pregnancy cravings, he said on a Facebook Live Q&A to promote the couple's new E! reality show Rob & Chyna. Her biggest cravings are Philly cheesesteaks and Chinese food from P.F. Chang's, so Blac Chyna's baby officially has the same taste in food as my dad.

Rob Kardashian and Blac Chyna Q&A

Rob Kardashian and Blac Chyna are here now answering your questions! #RobAndChyna

Posted by Keeping Up With The Kardashians on E! on Wednesday, August 17, 2016

The pair also revealed that they first met at Kendall Jenner's 16th birthday party at Six Flags. "We actually met at Kendall's Sweet 16," Chyna said. "The weirdest thing looking back at it we were winning prizes together and sitting on the ride close to each other. It was weird. It's funny like…"

"Everything just comes full circle," Rob said, finishing her sentence. "Gotta love Six Flags!"

These people are made for each other!


Mom uses tortured toothpaste metaphor to teach her daughter that words matter.

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A mom used an elaborate metaphor involving toothpaste to try to teach her daughter to be kind. Amy Beth Gardner's daughter is about to enter middle school, a time when many children become seduced by the evil pleasure of gossip. To keep her on the right path, Gardner taught her daughter a lesson with a tube of toothpaste, and posted about it on Facebook. Now, that post is going viral, with over 600,000 shares.

My daughter starts middle school tomorrow. We've decorated her locker, bought new uniforms, even surprised her with a...

Posted by Amy Beth Gardner on Sunday, August 14, 2016

It reads:

My daughter starts middle school tomorrow. We've decorated her locker, bought new uniforms, even surprised her with a new backpack. But tonight just before bed, we did another pre-middle school task that is far more important than the others. I gave her a tube of toothpaste and asked her to squirt it out onto a plate. When she finished, I calmly asked her to put all the toothpaste back in the tube. She began exclaiming things like "But I can't!" and "It won't be like it was before!" I quietly waited for her to finish and then said the following:

"You will remember this plate of toothpaste for the rest of your life. Your words have the power of life or death. As you go into middle school, you are about to see just how much weight your words carry. You are going to have the opportunity to use your words to hurt, demean, slander and wound others. You are also going to have the opportunity to use your words to heal, encourage, inspire and love others. You will occasionally make the wrong choice; I can think of three times this week I have used my own words carelessly and caused harm. Just like this toothpaste, once the words leave your mouth, you can't take them back. Use your words carefully, Breonna. When others are misusing their words, guard your words. Make the choice every morning that life-giving words will come out of your mouth. Decide tonight that you are going to be a life-giver in middle school. Be known for your gentleness and compassion. Use your life to give life to a world that so desperately needs it. You will never, ever regret choosing kindness."

This is cute and all in a Midwestern Pinterest mom way, but it kind of reminds me of when teen church groups make everyone spit in a cup and then ask if someone wants to drink it as a metaphor for how gross having sex with more than one person is.

NYC Parks Department's response to a NSFW Donald Trump statue is a master class in shade.

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Today, the anarchist art collective INDECLINE put naked, testicle-free statues of presidential candidate Donald J. Trump in public spaces around New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Cleveland, and Seattle. The fun part about the project, titled "The Emperor Has No Balls," was that the artist portrayed Trump with a really tiny ding-dong, a hypothesis which has been speculated by both me and Sen. Marco Rubio.

The New York statue, placed in the East Village's Union Square, was up for two hours before being painstakingly removed by the city's Parks Department—the statue had been glued in place.

But after the statue was removed, the Parks Department still got in one last dig in at Trump with this subtle press release, presented here in its entirety:

De Blasio's New York!

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16 tweets from Cher to bring you joy this election cycle.

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What can I say about Cher that hasn't already been said? She's an icon, a diva, a Grammy winner, an Oscar winner, an Emmy winner, and a damn snappy dresser. She's been famous for 50 years now and has never once shied away from Cher-ing her opinion. (HA HA) Cher's the definition of not giving AF. Her hilarious outspoken anti-Trump Twitter feed has been pretty much the only good thing to come out of this election cycle.

This is the only kind of bot I want on Twitter.

1. Cher's really into Tweeting with her 3.11 million followers.

2. She uses caps lock and emojis with wild abandon!

3. Oh and by the way, Cher is for Hillary.

4. Really for Hillary.

5. Not kidding you guys, she's for Hillary.

6. And she doesn't give a rip if that pisses you off.

Cher and Hill not GAF since 2000.

7. Cher's job is being an Icon and she's been employee of the month every month for approximately 600 months.

8. Cher hates Donald Trump.

9. A lot.

10. Cher hates Donald Trump with the fire of a thousand suns.

The fire of a thousand suns= one of Cher's outfits.

☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

11. Donald, if you're reading this (and I know you are) Cher is really mad at you!

Don't think you're getting her vote, dude.

12. Oh 💩! She calls you a toilet emoji 🚽 bro.

13. Seriously, she freakin' hates you.

She does not wish she could turn back time and take back those words that hurt you.

NOT!

14. She wants off your dang mailing list.

15. And stop calling her Cherilyn. WTF.

It's Cher bitch.

16. Bottom Line, Cher is the queen, and she's not going to let a little things like politics keep her down.

Taking down trump in 140 characters or less. 🔥

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