I like reading other people's reminiscences, so I hope mine will amuse some of you. Please don't bother to read them if you are only interested in medical matters. Anyway here goes, starting right at the beginning.
It was March 1941. The sirens had sounded, and the bombers were passing overhead when my mum told my dad that the baby was coming. My dad walked in the dark to the nearby nurses' home, where they had booked a nurse to oversee the delivery. Dad and the nurse walked back- always a slightly dangerous business with our night fighters and ack- ack shooting at the bombers. ( My elder brother amassed a fine collection of spent ammo from these raids.) Then the nurse stayed with my mum all night and nothing happened. Next morning my dad went off to work. (Bricklayers did not get paid in those days if they did not work.) He hurried home at lunch time- and found my mum eating an egg which the nurse had cooked. Off to work in the afternoon and back quickly at tea- time. Still no baby. Eventually the nurse told him he'd have to fetch the doctor. So father walked down to the doctor's surgery, where a lot of hopeful patients were waiting. When he explained his errand the doctor was not best pleased, but he picked up his bag and shouted into the waiting room that he would not be back that evening. 'They'll still wait', he told my dad. Back at the house the doctor got out his trusty forceps and helped my rather small mother deliver 9lb. me.
According to my parents the doctor was not a happy bunny because he had sent his wife into the country to escape the bombing and was looking forward to a night of sin with his receptionist. I remember him as a large and rather abrupt Scotsman, whose vaccinations were fierce and painful.😂😂 Nothing to do with me messing up his evening?
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A brilliant, if somewhat scary, beginning Alberta. I loved your story. Our daughter weighed 9lb 8oz at birth but arrived within 2 hours. She herself had her eldest son quickly and he was born weighing 9lb 6oz. I’m pleased the doctor went to help your mother and you arrived safely. His amorous ways had to wait. Xxx❤️😘
Poor doctor. He must have been sex starved. 😂😂😂
Served him right 😂😂👍