Do you know your local "lady who delivers babies"?

[keithmac]

Our first born was a quick labour, wife didn't seem quite right but said no point me taking the day off (this was 8am) but I did anyway.

Over the next hour she rang maternity ward a couple of times but they were convinced she wasn't having contractions, by 9.30 I told her to get in the car.

Took a shortcut to hospital but it was bloody bin day and the bin lorry had blocked the road!, by the time I'd helped my wife into the Hospital and dumped the car my son was half way out!, nearly missed it.

 

[ufkacbln]

A couple of years ago? Blimey, it's a miracle.

Last year - One of my colleagues was parking her car and was called over by a rather flustered gentleman............ to assist in a car park delivery of their baby

 

[growingvegetables]

"Everything will just happen fine, just don't drop it"

Hey - there's not a lot more to it .......... for the bloke. I delivered our oldest; as luck would have it, quick delivery with no complications. But then I didn't have much to do.

All that stuff about the man of the house being sent off to boil water and find this, that or the other, were ruses to get handless, panicking males out of the room. Give 'em something to do. Anything. Anywhere. Just NOT here.

 

[marknotgeorge]

According to Eldest Stepdaughter's homework when a little girl, my ex worked all night making babies.

(She was an HCA in maternity, and often did night shifts...)

 

[Globalti]

I allowed the obstetrician to deliver my son because he was an extended breech, same as me (bottom came out first) so not quite straightforward. However as a teenager I got quite good at dog obstetrics because my Mum used to breed dachshunds so I used to help out and revive the one half dead runt that always seemed to come with a litter. A drop of brandy on the tongue and a good rub with a towel always brought them spluttering to life.

 

[iandg]

Yes, I do - and the local undertaker (I'm a hospital laboratory/mortuary manager)

 

[ufkacbln]

I once knew a doctor who "found religion"

He retrained and became an ordained Minister ..... then found that he missed the medical challenges and returned to medicine

There were a lot of jokes about being able to give the last rites if he made an error