Kevin Milne: The dramatic birth of his second child

Labour and childbirth can be a frantic time for everyone involved. 

This week Kevin Milne is reminiscing on the birth of his second child - and the drama that came with it.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack team podcast
from News Talks.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
The'd be Kevin Milon is with us this morning, Kelder.

Speaker 3 (00:14):
Kevin Kydra and you asked, how do I feel about
all these movies where they women are looking for younger men? Yes,
one word nervous.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
Oh come on, Kevin, you and Linda are rock solid,
rock solid.

Speaker 3 (00:35):
I'd like to think that it is at It doesn't
mean there's a little bit of a theme, isn't it. Yeah?
You know, yeah, oh, well fair enough.

Speaker 4 (00:44):
I mean I wonder what it is because I wonder
if they all, you know, like, if there's kind of
crossover from the writing teams or something, you know.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
I don't know anyway, certainly one that we've noticed. So
we're going to we're going to.

Speaker 4 (00:56):
Take a take a closer look at the new Bridget
Jones film be fourteen o'clock this morning.

Speaker 2 (00:59):
But Kevin, you're wanting to talk about childbirth yourself?

Speaker 3 (01:03):
Yeah, well, I thought given child, but that was on
your mind, Jack, I'd tell the story of one of
my own children's birth. It was the arrival of our
second child, Rory, at pataparo Umu Hospital, one of those
gorgeous little maternity hospitals that no longer exists. The difficulty
of face with your second birth is what to do
with your first child. We decided to take him to

(01:25):
the hospital with us at about midnight, and while Linda
was given a bed to work through her labor our,
little Alex and I were given another bed to get
some sleeping. But three year old Alex had no interest
in sleeping. I chased them around the hospital rooms until
about three am, and then the night nurse came up

(01:46):
with an idea. Kids always fall asleep in cars. She said,
why not taking him for a drive, then pop them
back into the hospital bed once he's asleep. So off
we went in the car and Alex fell asleep. We
were driving past a closed service station on our way
back to the hospital when car put my dat's in
one twenty one. I broke down. I'm panicking, thinking I

(02:09):
may now miss the birth of my child. A cop
car drives through the service station on a routine nighttime check.
I run over, excuse me, my car's broken down. Any
chime you could drive me a couple of k's back
home to pick up my wife's car. Sure, they said.
Then they noticed they had a sleeping three year old
in the back of the car. Why have you got

(02:30):
a baby child in your car at this hour of
the night. Sorry, we're just gonna have to make a
few checks. I suspect they thought this was a domestic
incident and I was on the run with my child.
I explained my wife was on labor and if I
didn't get back quickly, i'd miss the birth of the child.
The cops were brilliant. Strap the lad into the back
of our car, and we'll get your home as quickly

(02:51):
as possible. And it was quick. My little fellow had
never felt speed like it, nor had he ever felt
more awake. It was his first trip in a police car.
We picked up my wife, Marris eleven hundred, and I
was back in time to watch the glorious birth of
our second son, three year old Alex. Never slept the

(03:13):
wind all night. When I caught sight of him after
the birth, he was in the hospital kitchen, enjoying bacon
and eggs with the night nurse. Wow, so these things happen.
Funny things happen. I've got an endless array of birth
and I'm sure all our listeners have them too. The
only things that happen.

Speaker 2 (03:34):
Isn't that amazing?

Speaker 4 (03:35):
Like he will you know, I'm sure he said at
the time, you know, even when I said, oh my gosh,
how do you feel about having having a little sibling,
and he just said, oh, I got to go in
a police car exactly, I got to go in to
a police car.

Speaker 3 (03:47):
You know.

Speaker 4 (03:48):
It's a dramatic enough night as it is, but you
can only imagine how exciting it must have been for
ma Ay.

Speaker 3 (03:54):
It's so funny, isn't it that because it was such
good advice. Yeah, because kids do.

Speaker 5 (03:58):
Full of sleep in the car, and he did, they do.
But yeah, but then but then we then the politically
really fast. You get my other car. It was just
a funny night. Yeah, yeah, it all turned out well.

Speaker 2 (04:11):
Yeah, I'm glad things turned out well in the end.
But that is that is terribly exciting.

Speaker 4 (04:15):
My goodness, your quarters old levels must have been somewhere
else by the end of all of that.

Speaker 3 (04:19):
Kevin, that's right, that's right, Yeah, very good.

Speaker 4 (04:22):
All right, we'll catch again very soon. Given glad that.
I'm glad that you've noticed the theme as well. But
I don't think you need to be too nervous about
the older women choosing younger men. Even if it's Bridget
Jones and Hathaway and Nicole Kibman. It's quite the selection,
isn't it. We're all following this trend.

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