Emily's Arrival

Emily burst into the world like a bullet from a speeding gun on 20th June 2008. She took five hours to pop out from start to finish, the first hour of this was put down to a dodgy burger and garlic fries with Rob Dockings in Clapham. Thankfully Jim was at home and was there to take orders and try to convey unhelpful advise from the ambulance service. Mandy the midwife arrived two minutes before she was born at 10.10 am [after I could see the Emily's head and was steeling myself to have to deliver her on my own - Jim]. Mother and baby were fine. But Claudia was peeved with the fact that she had been denied the opportunity to have any "Gas and Air".