
It Happens: Babies Get Born on Airplanes
Babies don’t continually arrive when they’re supposed to.
And once in a rare even as, they’re born on airplanes.
Airlines know that. And in order early because the Nineteen Seventies – and probable before – disposable obstetrical kits inclusive of this one in the collection of the SFO Museum at San Francisco International Airport (SFO) were stocked onboard.
The museum shared this unusual item because the first item in its new ’fifty two Objects’ series. And we can’t wait to see what’s next.

The kit has an instance of a stork – and a rabbit – at the lid turning in a infant. And the contents include a disposable scalpel, a bulb aspirator, and a receiving blanket among different matters needed to deliver a toddler.
The Smithsonian Museum of American History has a similar package in its collection and has a photo of the field opened so we are able to see some of the gadgets inside.

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