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Premature baby goes home via Learjet

Catherine Swallow and her husband Ricky were on a 10-day vacation in Majorca, Spain when Catherine started to feel unwell. When she was taken to the clinic, the doctors saw that the 37-year-old teacher was having contractions.

The physicians tried to delay the delivery, but they were forced to induce labour when they could not stop the contractions. Catherine gave birth three months premature to a baby boy named Joshua, which was the middle name of the doctor that helped deliver the baby. 

While Catherine was allowed to leave the hospital after three days, baby Joshua was kept under intensive care for three weeks.

Doctors also told the Swallows that Joshua would not be able to fly home for at least two months until the newborn is wealthy enough.

The Daily Mail Reporter narrates: “The family, from Rossendale, then called on their Tesco holiday insurance who agreed to cover the £17,000 to hire a Learjet air ambulance to fly them home early.”

“They told us we would have to be there for two or three months because he had to be a certain weight in order to fly,” said Mrs. Swallow.

She explained, “Without the insurance company, we would not have come home on a Learjet and we would have had to wait over there for a few months.”

Joshua is now in Rochdale Infirmary and is out of an incubator. He is expected to go home in the upcoming weeks.