Okay, so maybe we’re old-fashioned, but the idea that a woman would give birth on a cruise ship means…oops, somebody goofed. Like airlines, cruise lines have rules about how many weeks a mother-to-be can be, or can’t be, before she’s allowed on the ship.
Just before the Memorial Day weekend, on the Carnival Paradise, one woman became two…and the new mother and daughter were evacuated a day before the ship was to return to Long Beach. Carnival’s policy is 24 weeks, max. According to USA Today cruise expert Gene Sloan, the ship was detoured to allow the U.S. Coast Guard to take the 30-year-old woman and her new arrival to an on-shore medical facility in California.
The birth raises a few “questions”:
• Does this give new meaning to a ship being “christened?”
• Did Carnival charge for the extra passenger…just kidding?
• In an era when babies are named after just about anyone or anything, is this little girl going to be called Paradise?
That’s it, we’re done.