Woman gives birth in paint aisle at Wilkos and her husband had to come from home!!!

[WendyWeber]

I can only think they were desperately finishing the nursery (I thought I was disorganised )

popsycal - about 40 minutes before I gave birth, I dropped ds1 off at my Dad's and he said 'it's not a false alarm is it?', I shrugged and said 'dunno!'.

Ha ha!

lol - these labours are all vaaaaaary quick!

I can't contemplate what it must be like to labour for hours and hours and hours. Must be awful!

This is another reason why I ought to persuade myself out of wanting a third......I would be giving birth in a lay by....

Ah - I knew what to expect with 3rd so it was 'text book'. 2.5 hours of calm, drug free labour and birth! So glad I did it!

Blimey. I'm always full of respect for women who have precipitous labours, must be very scary. Esp. when you come up against case-hardened midwives who are so used to telling people 'you'll be hours yet, love'.

oh god, how fast was that.

dd2 was quick, i woke up with a twinge, had several contractions on the way down the stairs, but the time i got to the hospital they were coming so quick, had one getting out of the car, practically ran to the door, had another one, they opened the door and i leant against the nearest wall having another one. they tried to move me and i snarled at the midwife 'in a minute.'

all in al lwas under 2hours and that was a shock in itself.

i agree with foxi - i simply cannot imagine labouring for hours and hours. much prefer the 2 pushes and out variety of labour - however intense!

This happened about 10 miles away from us & was in the local paper.The shop is on a very dodgy estate too!

I think this was the couple's 3rd child.

I got to the hospital at 8.30am and DS2 was born at 8,49am (19mins) and I did not have any contractions just a mild backache.... DS1 was 15 mins.

A friend of mine had NO pain with her contractions with her first (said they were like strong BH), & her second DC was born in the car in the hospital car park

I guess I would stay at home from 39 weeks if I was her having a third

Girl on the mat ward I was on wih DS had her DC in the toilet on the labour ward so I guess the not being able to move thng does really kick in (so near & yet so far etc)