She’d prepared for a relaxing home water birth like she’d had with her middle child, daughter Rosie. But Sam Faiers’ labour took a dramatic turn when she decided to abandon the blow-up pool at the last second, and instead delivered newborn Edward standing up in the kitchen.
Sharing her birth story for the first time, Sam told OK!: “The whole time, I didn’t sit down as I didn’t want to slow down the labour, so I was just pacing around. “I’d had Rosie in the water and it was beautiful, so I thought it would be the same with Edward.
But when I got in the water, I just couldn’t get comfortable and immediately felt like I needed to get out. “Instead, I went to a corner of our kitchen – Paul was standing behind me and I had my hands on his neck.
How he held my bodyweight I don’t know, because I was putting all my weight onto him. “He said a few days later he was still aching from it!
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