Families celebrate as new bubs arrived in time for Mother’s Day
MUMS across the Gold Coast have celebrated their first Mother’s Day in style – by welcoming their own bundles of joy.
Maternity wards across the city were kept busy as babies were born across the weekend, just in time for the special day.
For Gabby Alder-Hughes, her birth was smooth sailing, giving birth to her second child Teddy at 8.47am on Sunday.
Ms Alder-Hughes went into labour at 5.30am and had a water birth to deliver her son more than three hours later at Gold Coast University Hospital.
“I was 41 weeks and going to be induced, and I wanted a water birth with my daughter but I did not get that with her, so I wanted one with him,” she said.
“I thought ‘oh I’m not going to get one if I get induced’ but then he just came naturally.
“This pregnancy has felt like a lifetime, but it is amazing to have one of each as well.”
Hope Island mum Sarah Young breathed a sigh of relief after last month fearing she would lose her baby after she started haemorrhaging while 35 weeks pregnant.
She was rushed to the Pindara Private Hospital with early contractions and doctors preparing her with the possibility that she might have to have a caesarean.
On Friday, she delivered her first child Sterling at 39 weeks at 1.33pm.
She said her son was the spitting image of her husband David.
“It was all very quick, and they dropped the sheet and went ‘here is your baby’ and I was bawling my eyes out, it was such a surreal experience but the student nurses were in there taking photos, so we got heaps of beautiful photos of Sterling being born and everything,” she said.
“He is super healthy, weighing in at eight pounds three and 53cm long.”