'You’re going to have to come here and catch the baby!'
Laura Paine, 37, an HR manager, lives in Derby, with husband Steve and daughters Ruby, 22 months, and Cara, four weeks.so was being monitored, and 10 days before I was due, I spent the day in hospital having my blood pressure and the baby’s activity checked.
I told Steve to get himself some dinner, and once I’d climbed out of the bath and put my underwear on I suddenly felt a much stronger contraction. ‘You need to come upstairs and help me, I think this might be real,’ I called. By the time Steve arrived upstairs I was stood at the end of the bed, when another contraction came over me. He asked if I needed to go to hospital, but there just wasn’t time.
It was all just so surreal, I’d been trying to get my head around the idea that I would probably have to be induced, and then all of a sudden there I was holding my baby in my arms. But I felt absolutely fantastic. I didn’t even feel like I’d gone through labour – there was no pain, no tearing or grazing, I wasn’t even tired as I’d had a long sleep earlier that day and it had all just happened so fast.
The paramedics carried out their checks and stayed with us until 1am, and the midwives left an hour later. Filling in the paperwork was a little tricky as we didn’t know the exact time Cara was born – we originally said 9.10pm but now we think it was a few minutes earlier.
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