A NINE-MINUTE LABOUR? NOW THAT’S WHAT YOU CALL AN... EXPRESS DELIVERY
A WOMAN gave birth to her first child on her bathroom floor in NINE minutes – after pushing for just TWO.
Nicole Jamieson is thought to have had one of the shortest labours on record.
She barely had time to get out of bed before little Jack, weighing 6lbs 3oz, arrived.
Nicole, 25, from Wythenshawe, didn’t even realise she was in labour and just thought she needed the toilet.
The hotel receptionist and partner Jack Fallon, 25, had been out in the sunshine on May 7 as Nicole was still three weeks from her due date.
When they got home, they had chicken fajitas before staying up late watching films. At 1.55am, Nicole’s waters broke. She puts it down to Jack making her cry with laughter by singing a mash-up of Britney Spears.
“He is such a bad singer,” Nicole said. “He goes completely over the top. He makes his own songs up.
“He’d sung a bit of Britney Spears’ Hit Me Baby One More Time. I was crying with laughter so that must have been what set it off.”
She added: “I didn’t even realise I was in labour.
“He was making me laugh that much. I told him to stop it because I needed to go to sleep, but as I turned over I felt this big pressure drop down. “It was my waters, but I didn’t know.” Nicole ran to the bathroom thinking she had wet herself. She ran herself a bath, but after seven minutes felt the need to push.
“The next thing I knew he was there, on the bathroom floor,” she said.
“I looked at my phone just after and it was 2.04am.”
Frantic Jack, a labourer, almost missed the birth as he had run outside in his underwear to call for help due to the poor phone signal in the flat.
But he made it back just in time to welcome his newborn son.
An ambulance arrived after half-anhour to check mum and son over and take them to hospital as a precaution.
Nicole added: “It was nine minutes in total from my waters breaking. I was pushing for about two minutes.
“It didn’t hurt, but I didn’t really know what was going on.
“Obviously as soon as I realised he had arrived I was worried, but Jack grabbed him and shoved him onto my chest and then he started crying, so I knew he was okay.”