Woman has baby in eight minutes

[lemonaid]

Wowsers!

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/sussex/7013387.stm

wowsers indeed !!

!!!

why didn't that happen to me

Wow! And she arrived the same day as my nephew who was also a bit speedy - 72 mins from arriving hospital.

no really. So she just dilated to 10cm without feeling a thing. Geeze!!

dd3 arrived in 11mins

dd2
dc3

please dont say wowsers

I did know a woman in my postnatal group who'd dilated to 10cm without feeling a thing -- she went to her 38 week midwife appointment and the midwife said "Ummm... you're in labour!". She didn't feel anything until it was time to push...

[Crosses fingers and issues stern "I hope you're paying attention here" vibes to DC2]

Wowsers, wowsers, wowsers

I used to like Inspector Gadget, so sue me (enhanced by the fact that our local MP just was Inspector Gadget. To look at, anyway. I can't vouch for the extendable arms and helicopter hat).

Wowser Id love to dilate without knowing a thing.

Ds calls balamory bowser for some reason, sounds like he's saying wowser

Sorry, but what is a wowser?

Interestingly, according to Wikipedia "Wowser is a slang expression, most commonly heard in Australian and New Zealand English. It originated in Australia, at first carrying a similar meaning to 'lout', i.e. an annoying or disruptive person. However, around the beginning of the 20th century it shifted to its present meaning: one whose overdeveloped sense of morality drives them to deprive others of their pleasures. At this time, the term was particularly applied to members of temperance groups such as the antipodean branches of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union."

But as far as I am concerned, it's an expression of mild surprise used in Inspector Gadget. Much as "Cripes!" was in Dangermouse.

"Interestingly" for a given value of "interesting", of course...

Mother is called Susannah and her baby is named Trinity. Trinny and Susannah anyone?

DS1 = 15 Mins
DS2 = 19 Mins.

I did not get on the news

That will probably occur to them in a couple of days. Just after they've filled in the birth certificate... (like these people, although not even nearly that bad, to be fair)

pmsl @ drew peacock
god love him

We can all pull faces at you anyway, kimi, if it helps?

And another for harleyd...

dont be
my little girl nearly went down the loo

LOL the dinner guest....such a BRITISH reaction to an amazing event...

'Susannah is the most phenomenal cook... but we did get a bit more than we bargained for'

OK. Will do?

was the midwife who told me i wasnt in labour

i would actually feel terribly cheated if i had a silent labour.. i know that sounds a bit odd, but i really enjoyed knowing i was in labour, building up to it, huffing and puffing on the way to hospital etc,, and i loved pushing and was a bit disappointed it only took 30 minutes