Let's guess the name of Sam Cam's baby - the winner gets a prize!

[Cortina]

A virtual prize. :).

Hmmm, well she said a Cornish name for the middle name. That has to be 'Loveday'.

For the first name I guess Eleanor, Jane, Sarah or Susannah.

Not in Cornwall, Zenon, but have been to St Endellion and knew it was near Daymer Bay. Considered calling my daughter Endellion as sound is so pretty but felt it a bit off if no real Cornish link. Edith did seem a possible Cameron name but also didn't think of Florence. Oddly enough my grandmother's name was Florence Ringrose ...

Great guess nonetheless Ixora. If only you had placed a bet with the bookmakers!! ...

woohoo- runner up, although i did hedge my bets

Hmm, bit upset they didn't go for Gordana. Or Waynetta. Or I-don't-need Child-Benefit- as i'm-middle-classa.

But I do wish them well.

And, what is it with these politicians. Sam Cam is a bit gorgeous and Call-me-Dave seems to be batting WAY over his average.

It said in the Telegraph (so it must be true) that their obstetrician just happened to be in Cornwall on hols at the same time..... hmmmmm.

this sounds a bit fishy to me.......

EAP - thankyou I knew there was a cheese but nothing came up on google!

by my reckoning there are 11 winners for Florence but only one for Rose but then I missed Ixora's guess. I am quite impressed with the hit rate though - maybe SamCam was here for inspiration!

I too am impressed with your guessing skills , ladies.

I've heard from in the hospital sources that they had their team flown in......What ever is true I bet they didnt wait 90 mins after a ambulance transfer to be seen like I did it that hell hole. Bitter...me ....actually yes! LOL

. . . did anyone else find it odd the way DC spoke about it. I'd said to DH that SC had had a caesarean, but when DC was on the news saying about contractions, then things "kicking off" and then "the baby popped out at about X o'clock," I said to DH "Oh sorry, she obviously didn't have a caesarean." Because it all sounded like a vaginal birth. Then at the end of the news item they mentioned that she had had a caesarean.

It gave me a slightly uncomfortable feeling of caesarean births being regarded as unmentionable or something. That's not quite it . . . can't put my finger on it.

She's only had caesarians, so that's been his experience of birth. And this time she did go into spontaneous labour, so things did "kick off". I don't really see anything wrong with his choice of language.

Given that the entire country knows the details of the history of the poor woman's uterus, I don't think there's any sense of a caesarian being unmentionable.

I found his comments very odd. As a diabetic, both my births happened naturally and very very quickly, both a week or so pre planned cs date. roughly nought to pushing in 20 mins. but both ended up as CS. fine. I feel really good about both births.
So I feel that I am in a position to comment. The way he described it was very odd.

He wasn't posting a birth story, though, he was talking specifically about how quickly things had happened, while talking to people who already knew that she'd had a c-section .

"It was very exciting, we were on holiday, thought we were going to get through the holiday and then have a baby, and then it just seemed to kick off a bit quickly [...] Samantha woke up this morning and thought she was having contractions and it was all beginning to get going so we thought we'd come to the hospital just to get everything checked out and then things sort of sped up and it all happened very very quickly and baby popped out at about twelve o'clock."

"Popped" isn't a bad choice of verb to emphasise the speed of everything that happened.

And stuff c-section vs. vaginal birth -- if I had crowds of press wanting to know about my birth I would prefer my DH to couch the whole thing in reasonably vague terms. Jumping from start of contractions to baby popping out, fine. Describing the in-between stages in detail for posterity, not fine, whether he's talking about the baby crowning or someone carving holes in my abdomen.

So the poor bloke is fielding media trying to describe the birth in nice general terms while getting across how exciting it was and he gets picked up on for not making it clear enough that his wife had had a c-section.

I've had three sections and the reality of it would be something like, 'and she had to be shaved and have an epiduraland thenshe needed to be cut open and then the ob yanked the baby out of her at 12 o'clock.'

'Popped out' makes a better soundbite for the 6 o'clock news really.

I'm not picking on him, ProfessorLayton

I haven't had a vaginal birth myself.

What's wrong in saying "the baby was born."

"The baby popped out" makes it sound like the baby erm popped out, ie without any assistance, and a bit quicker than some do. It's the sort of thing people say when they have had a really easy vaginal birth. I have been told many a time that "the baby popped out" or "the baby shot out" but all about speedy vaginal births. I expect the answer is that DC has heard that a lot of times too and thought that's just birth in general. And he's probably right.

all spinny stuff imo - if she had her baby in a posh london hosp it wouldn't have sounded quite so breezy would it - bet this was all planned to counter any negative press.I haven't heard any (apart from on this thread...)

It's sad that if they did do it on purpose, that they felt the need to. It's so sad for us all that people expect nasty comments on the birth.

Well, she was never going to go into Labour...

Lovely photos, v cute baby.

Can't quite understand how Mr C stayed in hospital with them for the three nights they were in. Is that the policy there?