Blimey - poor woman gives birth on M1 with an audience of cheering lorry drivers!

[edam]

and to think I've been moaning about ds's school closing...

Oh my what a nightmare!

were not actually WATCHING www.northantset.co.uk/news/Baby-Amy39s-dramatic-entrance.4955580.jp

shoulda planned a home birth.

poor thing.. glad all was okay!

Did anyone else notice the name of the Swindon school where the kids were suspended for not coming in in that Guardian piece?

Nova Hreod

Assumed it was a good old-fashioned Grauniad tyop but no, it's a bit of poncey Wiltshirese Saxon instead

see, that settles it, if i go into labour while there's snow on the roads i am not fucking leaving the house!

hospital is an hour away and i'm damned if i'm exposing my arse to the cold giving birth at the side of the road!

OOPS

They were not actually watching

Too full of the cold to link properly. Sorry.

Funnily enough my sister called me on Thurs to say she couldn't come because roads were so bad they'd turned one into a lorry park for vehicles that couldn't get down the M1. She's a nurse (and was my birth partner) if only she'd made the attempt she could have helped!

loved the lorry drivers story btw!

And having read the story I'm glad to know she was in an ambulance rather than a car!

What a great story!

Must have been quite scary at the time though, however amusing it seems afterwards. I am glad they both got through it well.

I'm glad to see the local newspaper story and realise that the lorry drivers couldn't actually see what was going on. All the horns blaring sounds very sweet, bless them.

They had cancelled all homebirths Foxy.

It's a touching story

they can only cancel a home birth if we let them. saying they are 'too busy', 'poor weather' etc are not valid reasons to cancel home births. they were fobbing people off.

It's not "fobbing off" under these circumstances - if someone had an emergency problem at a homebirth, & there was no chance of getting help to them or them to hospital, & the baby/mother died, who would be held responsible & sued?