Women's Decision-Making And Factors Affecting Their Choice Of ...

346. and I said, well, you know, I don't want my husband 'co - leave me,
347. so I was a bit ofchicken, and they said oh no, hell, have to go
348. home, so they sent him packing at about halfpast ten, they
349. said you know, you've got to go home nothing's happened we try
350. again in the morning. So he didn't wane come all the way home,
351.um, because the lady said, another midwife had said to him, oh
352. yeah it might not work now, but give it a couple of hours it might
353. hit full force. He was very worried I suppose being his first child
354. that he'd miss everything? So, he went out to the car which was in
355. the car park, he drove home he had a wash, he had a shower,
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a change ofclothes he had something to eat and then he went back
357. to the hospital and he slept in the car (laughs).
358. The midwife, K, was my midwife in the health centre arrived at the
359. hospital at 5 o'clock and my contractions were like full force,
360. and I said to her can you phone my husband? and she said
361.oicourse I can and she phoned him on his mobile, he said,
362. I'm in the car park I'll be two minutes. Yeah, I mean he come up
363. pounding in, you know, and I can honestly say I mean, having him
364. there um, when the actual contractions that were very bad
365. and he was laying rubbing my back. He was absolutely fantastic,
366. and I mean fantastic. And between like him and K, the midwife,
367. it was what it was, it was really nice, and you know, even afterwards,
368. like seeing our boy come out and, everything else, I think it was
369. brilliant and he said to me, well, ifthat's how easy it is,
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you will have them at home, coz he kept thinking and teasing me,
371.he kept saying my dear you can make it look so easy.
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And I said, well, I can assure you it wasn't, but you know (laughs).
So yeah, that's why he decided that yeah, if that's what I wanted
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