My ex-boyfriend was my midwife – I had no idea until he walked in mid push, but he’d seen it all before so who cares?
GIVING birth can be a pretty daunting experience, so having a familiar face present can help you through the ordeal.
But this woman wasn't exactly expecting her ex-boyfriend to walk through the hospital room door mid-push, all while her baby's father looked on in utter shock.
Tarsha, from Brisbane Australia, and Tim dated briefly in 2013, two years before the bizarre encounter, she told .
While she knew he worked at the Brisbane hospital where she was about to give birth, she wasn't expecting that he would be the one bringing her baby into the world.
As she started to push, the midwife announced she's changing shifts and that someone else would step in instead.
“As I’m getting ready to push, she comes back in and says, ‘I just want to let you know, *Tim is taking over, and he wants to know if it’s OK?’" Tarsha, 28, told Kidspot, still shocked at the chain of events six years later.
As I’m getting ready to push, the midwife walked in… it was my ex.
Tarsha
"As I’m getting ready to push, the midwife walked in… it was my ex."
Tim was one of two male midwives at the hospital at the time and Tarsha previously joked about "how funny" it would be if he ended up delivering her baby.
“When they told me it was him, I couldn’t believe it, but I was thinking to myself, ‘Oh that’s fine, it’s not the first time he’s been down there. Then he just walks in, his arms crossed over and says, ‘Hey Tarsha’, and I went ‘Hey!’”
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While the familiarity made Tarsha feel more comfortable, the father of her baby, and her partner at the time, wasn't so pleased.
In fact, he raged "are you f**king kidding?" the mum revealed, remembering it very clearly.
With a baby just one push away, there was little time for much else, and Tarsha finally welcomed her baby daughter Mackenzie safely into the world - all thanks to Tim.
Tim held his hand on my stomach and told me when to push, and he ended up being the one to pull her out, do her checks and wrap her up for the first time.
Tarsha
“Tim held his hand on my stomach and told me when to push, and he ended up being the one to pull her out, do her checks and wrap her up for the first time,” the mum-of-two said.
Adding that her placenta was "all over the floor and on my ex".
Even after the birth, Tim continued to care for the new mum, making sure the happy parents, and the newborn bub, were keeping well.
Tarsha said having her ex there "made it a lot more comfortable" and the pair even shared a post-birth text exchange - with she still has record of today.
"You did well," he told her in the days that followed as she thanked him for delivering her baby.
Six years on, the pair still occasionally check in on one another with the mum-of two admitting he will always be a special part of her life.
"I’m actually really glad that he was the one who was the midwife on the day… I still love telling everyone about Tim being there, I think it’s hilarious and I love having a funny birth story!”
This story originally appeared on Kidspot and was shared here with permission.
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