The Sean Moncrieff show on Newstalk sent their roaming reporter Henry McKean off to The Birth Hotel at Geboorte Centrum yesterday, a special private maternity hospital in Amsterdam, where he was attached to electrodes that simulated child birth.
According to Newstalk, specialist midwives were on hand to ensure that Henry went through the “full labour experience.”
McKean commented before he left the country: “I have been practising my breathing techniques and pain tolerance, I’m becoming increasingly nervous and worried about it.Princess Kate and Will are having a baby and I recently become an uncle so I’m feeling broody but nothing prepared me for this.”
Moncrieff checked in with McKean at the beginning of labour when he was going through some severe contraction pains. Poor Henry couldn’t even finish the phone call.
Ladbrokes were taking bets on how long McKean would last in labour, he was odds-on at 4/5 to shed tears and 4/1 to quit within the first half-hour.
Henry lasted a total of two hours and fifteen minutes. He said “The hardest part was I didn’t know when pain was going to come. It was awful.”
“I’m all red all over! My goodness I understand what women have to go through now. I feel like I understand women.”
The reporter will have a full run down of his experience on this Friday’s Moncrieff.
Most importantly, he did not cry.
Thanks to Henry’s birthing partner Hayley O’Connor @hayleyladbrokes from Ladbrokes for the heads up on this one.
