As Mike explained on a previous episode of the podcast, Zara’s friend Dolly Maude was with them at the time and realized they wouldn’t make it to the hospital in time. “So it was running to the gym, get a mat, get into the bathroom, get a mat on the floor, towels down,” he described, “‘brace, brace, brace.'”
“Fortunately, the midwife, who was going to meet us at the hospital wasn’t that far away,” he noted, “so she drove up, got there just as we’d assumed the [position]. And then the second midwife arrived just after the head had arrived.”
Now, as they get accustomed to life as a family of five, it seems Mike got his wish. “I’d like a boy this time,” he said on the podcast in December. “I’ve got two girls. I would like a boy. I will love it whatever, whether it a boy or a girl—but please be a boy.”
