Hang On To Your Hat

Geoff Ritchie Baldwin - Soon To Be A Dad

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We interrupt the Broome Series with some pending baby content ----

While dan is dashing about in Broome, Derek had a great chat with moto journalist Geoff Baldwin as he is about to become a father for the first time.
Geoff and his wife are not only having a home birth, but they are doing it in a pool in the loungeroom. They chat about the benefits and realities of home birth and Derek reveals that he was, in fact, a deliberate home birth baby from the 60's (man).

Some topics covered this episode:

  • There's no turning back
  • Home Birth
  • Forgetting all the trauma
  • Guessing the Gender - everyone has an opinion
  • Being a writer from home with a baby
  • Trying for a baby - ovulation based sex can be a bit unromantic.
  • Mercy Hospital Birthing Centre - sadly not there anymore, but a great mid point between hospital and midwife style birth.
  • Water birth - for comfort and pain management. (ground floor only)
  • extracting a fish bone from your wife's throat with tweezers - Geoff is all set for toddler triage.
  • mother in law in the birth team - this is going to be a bonding experience.

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