Baby born on Afghanistan evacuation flight called “Reach” with plane call sign

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“We have held more talks with the baby’s mother and father,” General Tod Wolters, commander of the U.S. European Command and NATO’s allied supreme commander in Europe, said in a briefing with reporters at the Pentagon. “They named the girl Reach. And they did it because the ring signal from the C-17 plane flying them from Qatar to Ramstein was Reach.”

Reach’s parents were on a flight from a staging base in Qatar after fleeing Afghanistan following the Taliban’s acquisition of Kabul.

“The commander of the plane decided to go down in altitude to increase the air pressure on the plane, which helped stabilize and save the mother’s life,” said a tweet from the official account of the Command of United States Air Mobility, which noted that the medical staff of the 86th Air Force Medical Group. got on board to give birth to the baby once the plane landed.

“Upon landing, 86th MDG airmen boarded and delivered the child to the plane’s cargo ship,” another account tweet said.

Reach and her mother were taken to a nearby medical center where the Air Mobility Command reported that they were in good condition.

“As you can imagine, being an Air Force fighter pilot, it’s my dream to see that little boy named Reach grow up and be a U.S. citizen and fly U.S. Air Force fighters into our Air Force. “Wolters joked.

Captain Erin Brymer told CNN how she helped give birth to the baby.
Speaking to CNN on Monday, the nurse who delivered Reach said she “expected the worst, expecting the best.”

“When I evaluated the patient, we had passed the point of no return. That baby was going to be delivered before we could move him to another facility,” said U.S. Army Captain Erin Brymer, a nurse. registered from the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center.

When asked when she realized things would be fine for the baby and the mother, Brymer said, “When the baby came out screaming! And we were able to put her directly into the mother’s breast and breastfeed her. immediately. I said, “Okay, we’re fine here.”

The pilot erroneously announced that the baby was a child and Brymer said he was correcting it. “I mean, she’s a girl,” the pilot said then.

The Pentagon announced today that approximately 88,000 evacuees have left Afghanistan since the evacuation began, but thousands more are still trying to leave the country before the planned withdrawal of troops ends next week.

CNN’s Brad Lendon, Atika Shubert, James Briggs and Jack Guy contributed to the information.

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