Sam Faiers’ birth story: ‘I gave birth in the kitchen, my kids were next to me’
04.07.2022 - 13:15
/ ok.co.uk
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! So I was standing but squatting a little bit, then the midwife came underneath ready to catch the baby. Little Paul and Rosie were next to me and I gave birth to him standing up.” Sam, 31, and her former property developer boyfriend, Paul Knightley, 34, welcomed Edward, who weighed 7lbs 10oz, at their Surrey home at 8.20am on 13th May following a fast three-hour labour.
The adorable blue-eyed boy joins siblings ‘Little’ Paul, six, and Rosie, four.The family are now adjusting to their enlarged brood. Recalling how her waters broke the night before on what should have been her due date, Sam added: “We’d put the kids to bed and had just had a curry because I wanted the baby to come. We were on the sofa watching Arsenal when all of a sudden I felt this big gush of water.
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