AIBU to hope the Duchess of Cambridge...

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....asks someone to remove Kay Burley or at least lob a shoe at her head from her labour suite?

I bleed like a monsoon after giving birth. No way I could walk out in a dress. Kudos to Kate!

“When I've seen her post birth, having to stand there in her pretty dress, I just think of the blood. She must be terrified of a gush of blood and leaking on her dress or running down her legs. Or maybe I was just very messy!”

She will presumably be wearing a sanitary towel!

Anyway, we don’t need to worry about this baby costing the taxpayer anything- 3rd babies don’t get any benefits.

How would they check the brides fertility? And surely even if they did, it takes two people to conceive - the bride can be as fertile as they want, but if the royal groom is firing blanks then no baby is going to happen!

I was thinking the same as you Howthelight but none of the royal ladies ever seem to have any problems at all. I don’t think Sophie had it easy. Diana and Fergie were both really young so surely the odds were always really, really good. I wouldn’t put it past them doing some of kind of weird test on Diana but then it was basically an arranged marriage wasn’t it?
The majority of people Kate’s age (when she started)would have been able to have children without too many issues but they were married for a couple of years before George so we don’t know if anything happened before.
I would find it sickening if Kate was “tested” somehow.

I also presume that the women have their birthing ability checked out as well. This might be one of the most ridiculous things I've ever heard. Please, do tell how you check "birthing" ability.

And even checking for fertility, is pretty unhelpful. Sure, you can see if a woman is ovulating and has a healthy looking womb etc, but unexplained fertility or miscarriage etc is impossible to predict.

Kate is just amazing, can this girl do no wrong? Third baby is born on St George's day , she has 4 weeks Fri to get back to her pre preg figure , for the wedding of the year, which she will. Well done Wills you picked had no choice but it worked out better than expected a little cracker for your wife.

Yup, Kate is a textbook Royal Wife. But Kate was tiny and if baby Gary is 8lbs 7 oz then I bet there are stitches. Ouch.

I am honestly in awe of that woman. After the fairly difficult but not extraordinarily so delivery of DD, I was broken. I had a drip for 12 hours, surgical stockings for 24 hours, couldn't stand up after the epidural for god knows how long, and could basically only walk shuffle at snails pace for a good week after.

I'm sure a hairdresser and makeup artist* could have worked wonders, but there would have been no disguising the wincing every time I had to move.

*yes, I know Kate does her own, but I would need professional help. Yet another reason I think she's probably actually a different species to me.

LOL Baby Gary

I'm a bit confused by it all, I thought she had a baby girl quite recently. She's having another one?

Honestly don't watch sky.

Sky aren’t the only ones reporting on it

I was watching the live feed half expecting to see the other mums, in various stages of labour or post labour, in dressing gowns and big t shirts, sneaking out those doors for a fag or vape as per most big hospitals. Maybe they have a posh back door for that.

LOL Baby Gary

It's a Middleton family name after all.

I'd love it if they called him Gary.

Would love to know what you ladies who had natural deliveries think. Would you have been able to stroll outside, holding new baby, within about 5 hours of delivery?

I didn't walk outside, but I walked around the corridors in the hospital with the baby, and down to the gift shop by myself.

Have a look at the woman that's just stepped out of the Lindo Wing, having given birth . That's what most of us looked like!

She will presumably be wearing a sanitary towel

Yes, yes, but I still wouldn't risk it, been known to bleed through a towel, and two pairs of knickers! Maybe she has one of those contraptions with the belt attached? I think it is pretty awful that she has to do the whole picture on the steps thing. It should be done away with.

Breaking down the cost to the taxpayer by saying they only cost us 60p a year or whatever makes it sound as if they're a great bargain. Nothing else is broken down that way in order for something to be justified. 60p a year off everyone in the country is a massive amount of money, i'd rather that go on new hospitals, schools, more police, teachers, doctors, an improved NHS..... Not to one single extremely wealthy family. It's obscene.

“I am honestly in awe of that woman. After the fairly difficult but not extraordinarily so delivery of DD, I was broken. I had a drip for 12 hours, surgical stockings for 24 hours, couldn't stand up after the epidural for god knows how long, and could basically only walk shuffle at snails pace for a good week after”

That really isn’t most people’s experience. Mrs Cambridge is much more typical. Apart from the team of make up artists and stylists to get her ready for a 5 minute appearance before she is whisked away to another lot of staff to look after her.

Why do Sky News always have that awful woman on these kinds of events.

Awwwww. Lovely news. Hope George and Charlotte are brought in for a viewing - I think Charlotte is just adorable.

Kate will, as always, look amazing.

“Would love to know what you ladies who had natural deliveries think. Would you have been able to stroll outside, holding new baby, within about 5 hours of delivery?“

Yes. Even more so if I had been wheelchaired to just inside the door.......

Oh my I have turned Kay on she is totally bonkers isn't she ? She keeps looking over to the steps she is going to give herself whiplash..

After DS1 was born I could barely walk (episiotomy and other stitches) but after DS2 was born I was fine, out the same day and we didn't even go straight home from the hospital! I would imagine after doing it for the third time Kate is a pro and has a team of people to make her look the part for her leaving.

To be honest I just looked and felt very tired but it's not as if she will actually be looking after the newborn is it? There will be staff for that.

I bet it's not that she's feeling great after a painfree labour, but more they want to get out of there ASAP for privacy and security - I'm sure Kensington House will be fitted out with every comfort and nurses and nannies on call etc... not to mention big fuck-off gates and walls, so the quicker she can hobble wave and get into the car the sooner they have blessed privacy, and can be secure (and the families at the Lindo probably are safer when there isn't a royal and massive surge of crowds around).

It's not like she's coming back to the dinner things left on the table from the last night and your mother in law needing to get back for grandad

Pippa is trying to get in on the act, it seems.