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

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.

this womqn actually claims to be pro life

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

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

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 ?

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.

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.

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.

lol, its not her Baby, its her Daughters.

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.