Recipe for a surprise delivery
July 13, 2007
LITTLE Anastasios Christopoulos will always be able to thank his mum and dad and his grandfather’s cooking for bringing him into the world.
After he was born three days ahead of schedule on the floor of his parents’ Brooklyn Park home last Friday, mum Kathy joked her father-in-law’s dinner that evening was to blame.
“I said to my father-in-law when he was cooking ‘put extra chilli in mine’ . . . You know, to bring on the labour, and because I like hot food,” she said.
When Kathy realised she was going into labour, she and husband George tried for a mad dash to the hospital but after getting daughter Joanne, 2, into the car, she realised she wouldn’t make it.
“I said ‘George, ambulance, quick. The baby is here’,” she said. “He couldn’t believe it.”
Anastasios was born on the tiled loungeroom floor, with George as the stand in doctor.
“I had my hand out to grab his head but he sort of slipped,” George said.
“He was a slippery little sucker. He just had a bit of a tumble coming down, but apart from that he was fine.”
Kathy is just thankful her husband did not faint at the sight of blood. “I was thinking ‘that’s all I need now, a fainting husband, a baby coming, and a daughter in the car all by herself’,” she said.