{"id":10583,"date":"2014-06-30T13:39:30","date_gmt":"2014-06-30T13:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kidstart.co.uk\/blog\/?p=10583"},"modified":"2014-06-30T13:39:30","modified_gmt":"2014-06-30T13:39:30","slug":"strange-places-women-birth-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kidstart.co.uk\/blog\/strange-places-women-birth-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Strange Places Women Have Given Birth"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Portsmouth woman gave birth to a baby at the side of the motorway this week<\/span><\/a><\/span> adding to the impressive number of birth stories that involve cars and taxis en route to hospital. <\/strong><\/h2>\r\n

Within my own group of friends, there is\u00a0a baby boy who arrived on a bridge in Scotland one dark, snowy night and another who popped out in the reception area of the labour ward while the midwives were booking the mother in.<\/p>\r\n

It is always wonderful to hear positive stories around birth and research has shown<\/a> that the number of complications for babies of women with low-risk pregnancies is similar whether they are born in hospital or elsewhere such as home.\u00a0<\/span>The key question however,\u00a0 is whether the pregnancy is considered low-risk or not and that can be more difficult to ascertain, especially for first timers. Home birth is not an option for many women, but some women would never even consider it, did you?<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Some of the oddest birth stories I\u2019ve come across include the following:<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\r\n

Sonia Marina Nascimento<\/strong> gave birth to baby Dulcie <\/span><\/a><\/span><\/em><\/span>at a Cambridge post office <\/span><\/a><\/span><\/em>where she had gone to top up her phone. \u00a0The newborn was even weighed on the post office scales!<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Performance artist Marni Kotak<\/strong> gave birth in an art gallery in front of an audience and then put the video online as part of an installation<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/em>.<\/p>\r\n

Shona Owen was born aboard a British Airways flight and was delivered by passenger <\/span>Wim Bakker who, as luck would have it, was a doctor. The captain announced her arrival over the Tannoy system to the whoops and cheers of fellow passengers.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

What about you? Did you opt for a home birth, midwife unit or hospital birth? Did your little bundle of joy arrive while you were out shopping? We\u2019d love to hear your stories!<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\r\n

featured image<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Portsmouth woman gave birth to a baby at the side of the motorway this week adding to the impressive number of birth stories that involve cars and taxis en route to hospital. Within my own group of friends, there is\u00a0a baby boy who arrived on a bridge in Scotland one dark, snowy night and","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10608,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3504,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-things-baby","category-great-family-life-tips"],"yoast_head":"\r\nStrange Places Women Have Given Birth - KidStart Magazine<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kidstart.co.uk\/blog\/strange-places-women-birth-stories\/\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Strange Places Women Have Given Birth - KidStart Magazine\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A Portsmouth woman gave birth to a baby at the side of the motorway this week adding to the impressive number of birth stories that involve cars and taxis en route to hospital. Within my own group of friends, there is\u00a0a baby boy who arrived on a bridge in Scotland one dark, snowy night and\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.kidstart.co.uk\/blog\/strange-places-women-birth-stories\/\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"KidStart Magazine\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2014-06-30T13:39:30+00:00\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.kidstart.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/baby.jpg\" \/>\r\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"704\" \/>\r\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"400\" \/>\r\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Sara Bran\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Sara Bran\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\r\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.kidstart.co.uk\/blog\/strange-places-women-birth-stories\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.kidstart.co.uk\/blog\/strange-places-women-birth-stories\/\",\"name\":\"Strange Places Women Have Given Birth - KidStart Magazine\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.kidstart.co.uk\/blog\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.kidstart.co.uk\/blog\/strange-places-women-birth-stories\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.kidstart.co.uk\/blog\/strange-places-women-birth-stories\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.kidstart.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/baby.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2014-06-30T13:39:30+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.kidstart.co.uk\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/ebbe4da9fc671ca188236556c0aa2a31\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.kidstart.co.uk\/blog\/strange-places-women-birth-stories\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.kidstart.co.uk\/blog\/strange-places-women-birth-stories\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.kidstart.co.uk\/blog\/strange-places-women-birth-stories\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.kidstart.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/baby.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.kidstart.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/baby.jpg\",\"width\":704,\"height\":400},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.kidstart.co.uk\/blog\/strange-places-women-birth-stories\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.kidstart.co.uk\/blog\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Strange Places Women Have Given Birth\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.kidstart.co.uk\/blog\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.kidstart.co.uk\/blog\/\",\"name\":\"KidStart Magazine\",\"description\":\"KidStart - a little help along the way\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.kidstart.co.uk\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.kidstart.co.uk\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/ebbe4da9fc671ca188236556c0aa2a31\",\"name\":\"Sara Bran\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.kidstart.co.uk\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/efc9f179c5d2fc6710c68ab971bb826d?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/efc9f179c5d2fc6710c68ab971bb826d?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Sara Bran\"},\"description\":\"Sara Bran is a writer, blogger, social media consultant and mother of two daughters living in London. She has an unbelievable tolerance to caffeine and an extreme aversion to brass sections.\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.kidstart.co.uk\/blog\/author\/sara\/\"}]}<\/script>\r\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Strange Places Women Have Given Birth - KidStart Magazine","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.kidstart.co.uk\/blog\/strange-places-women-birth-stories\/","og_locale":"en_GB","og_type":"article","og_title":"Strange Places Women Have Given Birth - KidStart Magazine","og_description":"A Portsmouth woman gave birth to a baby at the side of the motorway this week adding to the impressive number of birth stories that involve cars and taxis en route to hospital. Within my own group of friends, there is\u00a0a baby boy who arrived on a bridge in Scotland one dark, snowy night and","og_url":"https:\/\/www.kidstart.co.uk\/blog\/strange-places-women-birth-stories\/","og_site_name":"KidStart Magazine","article_published_time":"2014-06-30T13:39:30+00:00","og_image":[{"width":704,"height":400,"url":"https:\/\/www.kidstart.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/baby.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Sara Bran","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Sara Bran","Estimated reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.kidstart.co.uk\/blog\/strange-places-women-birth-stories\/","url":"https:\/\/www.kidstart.co.uk\/blog\/strange-places-women-birth-stories\/","name":"Strange Places Women Have Given Birth - KidStart Magazine","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.kidstart.co.uk\/blog\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.kidstart.co.uk\/blog\/strange-places-women-birth-stories\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.kidstart.co.uk\/blog\/strange-places-women-birth-stories\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.kidstart.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/baby.jpg","datePublished":"2014-06-30T13:39:30+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.kidstart.co.uk\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/ebbe4da9fc671ca188236556c0aa2a31"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.kidstart.co.uk\/blog\/strange-places-women-birth-stories\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-GB","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.kidstart.co.uk\/blog\/strange-places-women-birth-stories\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/www.kidstart.co.uk\/blog\/strange-places-women-birth-stories\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.kidstart.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/baby.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.kidstart.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/baby.jpg","width":704,"height":400},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.kidstart.co.uk\/blog\/strange-places-women-birth-stories\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.kidstart.co.uk\/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Strange Places Women Have Given Birth"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.kidstart.co.uk\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.kidstart.co.uk\/blog\/","name":"KidStart Magazine","description":"KidStart - a little help along the way","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.kidstart.co.uk\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-GB"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.kidstart.co.uk\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/ebbe4da9fc671ca188236556c0aa2a31","name":"Sara Bran","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/www.kidstart.co.uk\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/efc9f179c5d2fc6710c68ab971bb826d?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/efc9f179c5d2fc6710c68ab971bb826d?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Sara Bran"},"description":"Sara Bran is a writer, blogger, social media consultant and mother of two daughters living in London. She has an unbelievable tolerance to caffeine and an extreme aversion to brass sections.","url":"https:\/\/www.kidstart.co.uk\/blog\/author\/sara\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidstart.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidstart.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidstart.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidstart.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidstart.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidstart.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidstart.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidstart.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidstart.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidstart.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}