Woman gives birth to baby boy on board Queen Mary 2

Thank you. Ah yes, fame and fortune has it's advantages. :)

But please: I am just speculating... I do not have more information than anybody else. But a friend of mine was working at an Airport Hotel with Vip-floor. And VIP can get special treatment, fast check in and so on.

I am sure there was no need for them to queue....

On occasion, people die on the QM2. This just helps even things out.

La de da and life goes on….

on occasion, people die on the qm2. This just helps even things out.

 

La de da and life goes on….

ob-la-di-----ob-la-da :d

ob-la-di-----ob-la-da :d

I never could sing on-key. Thanks for the chorus, brigitte : )

But please: I am just speculating... I do not have more information than anybody else. But a friend of mine was working at an Airport Hotel with Vip-floor. And VIP can get special treatment, fast check in and so on.

 

I am sure there was no need for them to queue....

But, per the German newspaper, the father would have been the celebrity, and he did not accompany his girlfriend. So, it would not appear that VIP treatment would have prevailed.

None of us has been there at the check in - but what do you think - if a famous american Film producer booked a big suite and request special treatment for his fisncee, living Partner, mother of his children ...do you think they would refuse?

You can have it for yourself if you book a suite with butlerservice ....

Even without a VIP service it´s possible. My kid is born in January and wearing my regular coat I wasn´t even offered a seat in a bus... So depending on what she wore at check-in it wasn´t even noticed by anyone.

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i wonder if cunard sent her a final bill before leaving the ship......they did for us when medical came to our room for noro......that was 100.00 plus for each of us. :eek:

To bring this interesting subject and all the speculations to an end, I suggest to ask the VIP himself.

None of us has been there at the check in - but what do you think - if a famous american Film producer booked a big suite and request special treatment for his fisncee, living Partner, mother of his children ...do you think they would refuse?

 

You can have it for yourself if you book a suite with butlerservice ....

You have a point, given those facts.

i wonder if cunard sent her a final bill before leaving the ship......they did for us when medical came to our room for noro......that was 100.00 plus for each of us. :eek:

On occasion, people die on the QM2. This just helps even things out.

I wonder what the nightly charge is for a space in the morgue.

I wonder what the nightly charge is for a space in the morgue.

no doubt inside cabin pays much less than the G.O.D. class:rolleyes:

Even without a VIP service it´s possible. My kid is born in January and wearing my regular coat I wasn´t even offered a seat in a bus... So depending on what she wore at check-in it wasn´t even noticed by anyone.

 

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Very True. I don't remember much of a screening process in Hamburg at all. On the other hand, November in Southampton, it was required that all outerwear be removed....including scarves.

I hope this breech of rules doesn't result in more scutiny for future pregnant sailors.....whether or not this had been approved by Cunard. Although it has always been my understanding that pregnant travelers needed authorization from their physician.

Oops.....Breach. :rolleyes:

Very True. I don't remember much of a screening process in Hamburg at all. On the other hand, November in Southampton, it was required that all outerwear be removed....including scarves.

 

I hope this breech of rules doesn't result in more scutiny for future pregnant sailors.....whether or not this had been approved by Cunard. Although it has always been my understanding that pregnant travelers needed authorization from their physician.

It´s the same in Hamburg - but the screening is done by security staff (port staff). They don´t know anything about traveling when pregnant. The check-in is done prior to the security screening. The check-in staff (either port or ship) are the ones to ask you whether you are pregnant and which week you are pregnant. And there you still can wear your coat ;)!

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Cough:rolleyes: I gained some weight (and lost it fortunately). To be honest - it was an amount comparable beeing pregnant.

I was never been asked if I was pregnant or just overweight.

And I was never requested to undress my coat. We went onboard at Amsterdam when we had snow-rain - and everybody was just happy to embark as fast as possible.

Same at Copenhagen last year.

Wendy,

definitely not at check-in or while boarding. But at security when you have to go through the X-ray machine you usually have to put your coat off and on the conveyor belt with your carry on.

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None of us has been there at the check in - but what do you think - if a famous american Film producer booked a big suite and request special treatment for his fisncee, living Partner, mother of his children ...do you think they would refuse?

 

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If it's a medical reason, yes. The medical officer would not risk their reputation and career by allowing someone to sail who shouldn't.

If it's a medical reason, yes. The medical officer would not risk their reputation and career by allowing someone to sail who shouldn't.

But that requires that the medical officer knows to investigate.

I do believe the baby should have been named Samuel. It is only right. Name the kid after the Founder. ??;)

Wouw what nasty comments! It´s a baby born- a new life! And some are eager to a avoid a matress where on ( if it was not born in the medical fac. ) a baby was born- but have no worries about a matress on which one died - and we all no what happens when or before one goes to his maker!

Beside the rules- Cunard advertises that good doctors and well equiped hosptial is provided!

My guess is that while we welcome a new birth, we get upset when unnecessary risks so close to delivery date that endanger mother and child are taken for no apparent reason.

It really doesn't matter if the passenger booked a Grill Suite or an Inside Cabin - the point is that the mother took a great risk when she boarded the ship for a Transatlantic Crossing well past a safe date. I don't know why she did that, but I sincerely hope other women are not encouraged to do the same based on this one incident that worked out well. -S.

But that requires that the medical officer knows to investigate.

Because the posters who are saying that a VIP would not be refused boarding, even though a woman is more than 24 weeks gestation.