Quote Originally Posted by NoraB View Post
I bet your mother wasn't smiling.

Please don't say you were the first to be heaved out at that weight?

I'll have to go and have a lie down...
I was the fourth and final baby but the biggest. The story I've been told was that my Mum was due to have me at a local hospital, but there were difficulties. So the Dr made the decision to transfer her to Northampton Hossy. I was stuck for four hours but apparently the ambulance ride jolted me free.

Yes 10lbs in 1965 was big, not so rare these days though. According to my Mum, the midwife chucked me back in the Moses basket/crib? saying 'blimming great thing'.