Where and how were you born?

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As I'm having a Hewitt induced rant about childbirth elsewhere, I thought I'd try a fluffier thread here.

I was born at home during the world cup in 1966 (obviously a good year )

My dad was watching TV downstairs and my mum was upstairs with the MW. He came upstairs between goals to check on 'things.'

To be fair to my dad, this was normal male behaviour for the time and I was the third child and it was a good match. It wasn't the final, though, so with hindsight, maybe he should have been a bit more interested?

After I was born they hung a pink sheet out of the window to let the neighbours know that I was a girl.

At home, Herts, 1969. 3 wks overdue, though Mum says they never took her long cycle into account so she was always massively 'overdue'. No time for the midwife to arrive, so my granny attended and did the necessary. They didn't cut the cord but just laid me on my mum's chest and had a quiet time all together until the mw arrived. There's a nice picture of my sis and brother holding me, aged about 2 hours.

NB i come from an extremely unlentilweavery family!

I was born on cup final day 1963 in the back room at home. Mum refused to go into hospital as she was terrified of them.

No bubble, she's 3 minutes older than me

Trafford general has a horrendous reputation, I'd have be unconscious to go through their doors!

I was born on 27th January in 567BC

I was born naturally after giving my mum a hellish 48 hour labour

I've been awkward ever since

My dad wasn't alowed into the room, and sat outside smoking. I was born at 10 30pm, so there wasn't enough time for him to go for a pint afterwards

oh yes, was born in Selly Oak hospital in Brum

2 months early, at an Army Hospital in Staffs. (We are nothing to do with the army so that's bizarre). I was an 'unusual' case because my mum was hospitalised for 3 months because she kept fainitng when she stood up. So with a lot of Doctors coming to see this woman and her baby they were being lectured with their backs turned away from my mum, and I slid out at the bottom of the bed. I like to surprise!!

Scottish - I am 9/12/72

apeainapod, cool you're 8 days older than me so I'll remember to ask you how the big 35! is!

There's a girl (loose term) in Sheffield with my name & d.o.b...spooky!

At home (Hertfordshire) August 3rd 1956, at 5.45 pm. I was the last of 4, I asked my mum for more details when I was pg, but she said she always got confused between my birth & my sister (same place 18 months earlier)

I was born in Withington Hospital, Manchester in 1972.

My Dad was there although I'm not entirely sure if he was in the corridor in the room at the moment of my arrival. I know he ran across town to get there and was stopped by the cops who asked him where he was going. Or I could be getting confused with my brother's birth - hmmm, I'm sure that was mine!

My mum had an enema and dry shave beforehand too - she loves to regale me with that story!

I was born in Maryfield Hospital, Dundee, in 1968 now the site of an astroturf playing field!

I was born by emergency c-section after the cord was found to be around my neck. My df was a nervous wreck as he was told to choose - either my mum or me . He chose my mum of course but luckily enough I survived to tell the tale . My grandfather was the first to see me as he had been in the emergency department having a cast put on his broken arm and the nurses sneaked him in to see me. I don't think my mum was too chuffed at her fil seeing the baby before her husband!

I was born in Selly Oak hospital in Birmingham. My parents took db to a friend's house and left when mum's contractions were every 4 minutes. I was born within 20 mins of arriving at the hospital, to the sounds of "2 little boys"

My birth is registered at 0005 hrs but my mum swears I was born before midnight, as she could see the clock and it was behind the mw!?! Having gone thru it myself I'm not sure she was in a fit state to tell! But knowing my mother, she is probably right (why break the habit of a life time )

Middlesbrough Maternity Hospital, no longer there. I was about a month early.

1968. My mother was in her 40s, which was quite a novelty for a first-time mother in those days. Consequently she was asked if it would be ok for some students to watch, as they'd never witnessed an older mother giving birth before. Apparently I made my appearance (forceps delivery) in an operating theatre, watched by a class of students observing from an overhead viewing gallery . I asked my mother if she was bothered about having such a large audience, but she says she was so fed up of being in labour that she'd have given birth in Fenwick's window (large Newcastle department store) and couldn't have cared less.

at home, in loughborough, the early hours of new years day 1971

At Kings college hospital, Camberwell, July 1970 (for years I thought I was born at Camberwick Green). Dad was watching News at Ten and would't come in until it was finished. I was two weeks late, mum was induced so can't have been much fun for her. Still, I was faster than my sister who took three days to come out. Said sister told mum I had a red ugly face when she first saw me (she was 3) and we've been bickering ever since! hehehe!

Born in Port Elizabeth,South Africa, in the hospital by emergency CS in 1978. Mum had toxemia - worst case of pre eclamsia. I was born at 28 weeks. Stayed in incubator for 2 months. A shoebox could have been my cot. Weighed less than a pound.
Fit, happy and fat now.

In Michigan, almost in a taxi, apparently, but made it to the Sparrow hospital, Lansing, in time!

Manchester in the traditional fashion

although the nurses were b*tches by all accounts.

'Is this your first?'

no, second

'well you know what to do, get on with it'

the good old days

Bum first in New York. Mum and Dad right trendies with my dad there coaching mum in new Lamaze techniques. She did have pethedine though, I think, as I was breech, and was allowed a Guinness straight afterwards to replenish Vitamin B.