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What was the most memorable thing that happened in the day your child was born?

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AmbsPhillps · 23/09/2020 21:02

Apart from your child being born obviously , for example did England win the world cup on the same day?

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PhylisPrice · 23/09/2020 22:18

It was my best friends mums funeral, baby was premature and I should have been there! Felt guilty even in labour 🙈

BertieBotts · 23/09/2020 22:19

With DC1 - he was born at 7.30am after 3 days of labour, I got back on the ward at about 9 and promptly fell asleep for about five hours. So did he :o

My dad turned up for a surprise visit and my friend turned up at the hospital having had contractions at 6 months pregnant and was put on steroids in case the baby was born (it was not). Those are the only things I remember.

With DC2, he was born at 3am, kept stopping breathing and making everyone panic, so he ended up being transferred to another hospital. I spent the whole day asking to be transferred as well until eventually they decided it would be easier to discharge me instead so I did that. Most memorable thing apart from DC2 drama was renting a hospital grade pump from the pharmacy and it turning out to be a relic from the 90s with two speeds, nipple destroyer or jet engine and instructions only in German (I'd assumed it would be a modern brand with instructions I could google!) I had been awake for about 36 hours at this point give or take a couple of naps, and also just really wanted to be with my baby so this didn't go down very well.

Lindy2 · 23/09/2020 22:20

I've absolutely no idea about anything that happened on the day my children were born. I was rather busy and very preoccupied on those days! I honestly remember nothing other than giving birth.

waterjungle · 23/09/2020 22:21

Brexit. Baby was born voting day, when to sleep, woke up to my husband telling me the news. I think my words were: I literally cannot deal with that shit at the moment.

TokyoSushi · 23/09/2020 22:21

The News of the World shut down.

BertieBotts · 23/09/2020 22:21

Or is this just data mining for MNers' DC's birth dates?

HiGunny · 23/09/2020 22:22

Malaysia Airlines plane was shot down over Ukraine. I only heard about it when I came out of hospital.

latheritup · 23/09/2020 22:22

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Hoppinggreen · 23/09/2020 22:22

Tsunami, although it was actually the day after.
I remember lying on the sofa with her watching the footage and thinking about how people with babies and children wouldn’t have stood a chance.
It was awful

mizzles · 23/09/2020 22:23

Rather awfully, the Manchester Arena attack.

Rockandgrohl · 23/09/2020 22:23

@JosephineDeBeauharnais

Chernobyl blew up.
I just thought id 'recognised' my first real life person on MN 😳 but you aren't my best friends mum after all 😁
heidipi · 23/09/2020 22:26

The Queen came to town 😁

ivetriedamilliinusernames · 23/09/2020 22:27

A royal wedding...following a weird family tradition, my 2nd birthday was also a royal wedding and my mum was born on the queen's wedding anniversary. I should have put a bet on but my daughter arrived surprisingly at 35 weeks so I was not expecting it to be that date at all!

Bingobongo1 · 23/09/2020 22:31

Dc1 don't know I was to ill.
Dt Claudia Lawrence disappeared and actress Natasha Richardson died both in their prime.

Echobelly · 23/09/2020 22:34

The most memorable thing the day before DS was born was that I was due to have him by planned C-section (due to medical issue) but I actually went into labour, though i didn't know it was labour as I never got there with his big sister, my waters broke at midnight, so it ended up being an emergency c-section 8 hours ahead of schedule, in the middle of the night!

Lurchermom · 23/09/2020 22:38

Not my baby - but I was born on the day the Berlin Wall was coming down Grin

CloudPop · 23/09/2020 22:49

@Hoppinggreen

Tsunami, although it was actually the day after. I remember lying on the sofa with her watching the footage and thinking about how people with babies and children wouldn’t have stood a chance. It was awful
Me too. Wasn't it awful
screamingchild · 23/09/2020 23:29

An amazing super Harvest moon eclipse!

screamingchild · 23/09/2020 23:33

And when my other child was born, the Malaysian aeroplane went missing.

Fatted · 23/09/2020 23:35

It was comic relief the day I was in labour with my eldest. My youngest was born the day before a royal baby. Nothing actually on the day with either I don’t think.

JustAddCoffee91 · 23/09/2020 23:36

Christmas Day happened... I'd just got the best gift ever!!

Wingingitsince2018 · 23/09/2020 23:39

Brexit vote in house of commons

OhTheRoses · 23/09/2020 23:41

@JustAddCoffee91 snap. I was just comjng on to say the same.

anorangeaday · 23/09/2020 23:47

I don’t think anything happened

JustAddCoffee91 · 24/09/2020 07:18

@OhTheRoses I've no idea what I'm doing for his birthday/Christmas this year tho, it's his 1st.. my other little boy was born on the 23rd and I got home with him on Christmas Day... I think I can only create Christmas children 😅