Labour - Laura Hamel-Shaw's story (Sorry Laura!)

By Laura Yates on Jul 16, 09 09:55 PM

Laura Hamel-Shaw's husband got in touch to tell me about her labours. It makes it sound worth going into labour purely for the comedy element!!

Hi Laura.....As you can imagine there are lots of funny stories about my Laura being in Labour:

1. When giving birth to our first, Laura refused to take off her scanky red dressing gown much to the dismay of the two midwives. She refused to lie down and insisted on giving birth in some semi erotic doggy-style position. However the PiÃÅ¡ce de rÃÂ©sistance came in the rare moments when Laura wasn't attached to the gas & air mask:

The midwife uttered the immortal words : 'Laura, you can hold my hand, but you cannot bite me'

2. This is more to do with me. When pregnant with our second, Laura and myself were laying in bed when suddenly she announced that her waters had broken. I thought this was a sign that Baby was only seconds away.

Like a true action man I lept out of bed and proceeded to run around everyroom in the house franticaly turning lights on and off in some bizarre ritual of the panicked and useless.

Once we arrived at the hospital I was told to ask for Triage. Now, I assumed Triage was the name of some nurse or something, imagine how stupid I sounded when after a few mins of being stuck in the waiting room I stormed up to the nearest nurse and demanded that my pregnant girlfriend had to see Triage, and I wanted her to come down here at once!

Nurse: 'Mr Shaw, Triage isn't a person...'
Mr Shaw: 'Humm....'

3. During labour with our youngest, Laura was lounging around in the birthing pool. Like the attentive husband I am, I was sat next to her reading the financial pages of The Telegraph.

Suddenly Laura let out a scream and low and behold there was a little furry baby floating around the pool!

The midwife said: 'Laura! Catch your baby!'

To which I looked up like some sort of english cricketer about to catch Shane Warne out for a duck....