Portsmouth couple who work at QA Hospital have their baby on New Year's day at QA Hospital
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00:00 So, yeah, so first of all, we'll start with the introductions as well for us.
00:04 So tell us who you are, where and who this little one is as well.
00:08 Oh wow, this is my husband, my husband is John Tapa and I'm his mum.
00:12 And I'm his dad, Robin.
00:14 Yeah, I was with Dad Tapa, just forgot about my name.
00:17 It's all about the little one though.
00:19 We both work at Kiwi, I'm a Reading of the Heart profession.
00:23 I'm a Biomedical Scientist.
00:25 Yeah, lovely.
00:26 Yeah, he came in with a bang, it took us what, 33 hours?
00:30 38.
00:31 38 hours.
00:32 Well, more than that, it was 9 months and 38 hours.
00:35 And he's finally here.
00:37 I cannot explain the feeling, but I'm just glad he's here.
00:41 I can see him, rather than feel him.
00:44 Yeah, it's really exciting, just feels like there's a discovery of a whole new world.
00:50 Just experiencing the love that we never thought that even exists.
00:55 So yeah, just enjoying the moment at the moment.
00:59 Excellent.
01:00 And working at Kiwi as well, did it help the fact that you were already in that environment?
01:04 Oh yes, yes.
01:05 Oh yes, it did.
01:06 I could not hold my hands, I just wanted to help everyone when they were working.
01:11 And the staff were brilliant, from midwife to theatres, they were absolutely brilliant.
01:17 They looked after us very well, especially this little one, look at him, he was like, "Yes!"
01:21 Yeah, exactly.
01:22 And then I work in the histopathology lab, so whatever samples they are going to send from maternity,
01:29 it's going to go to our lab.
01:30 And all my colleagues were like, some of my colleagues, they were like,
01:34 "As soon as your sample is going to be here, we are going to process it really well."
01:38 So everybody's really excited.
01:40 So being in the environment, it has really, really helped us.
01:44 And even in the maternity ward, when they knew that we work there,
01:49 literally just felt like we were not any far from home.
01:54 So it was really special.
01:56 Excellent.
01:57 So you became more of a personalised experience.
02:03 Yes, it was more like close to family.
02:07 That's why it made me feel closer, didn't it?
02:09 Yes, yes.
02:10 Yeah, excellent.
02:11 So how excited were you when you found out it was going to happen on New Year's Day?
02:15 What was going through your emotions?
02:17 What was happening?
02:18 The first thing was we had a feeling he was not going to come on New Year's Day
02:21 because when the nurse is telling us, "Oh, yeah, we are going to get the baby out on New Year's,"
02:26 because of his situation, it might have been delayed.
02:32 But to have someone on New Year's Day and to start our New Year's
02:36 with another person in our life who is going to change our whole world,
02:41 it was absolutely brilliant.
02:43 Yeah, in my perspective, my sister, she had passed her due date by two weeks,
02:51 and I had the same feeling, like I'm going to be late because I was working until the very last week
02:56 and then nothing had happened.
02:57 I was not feeling any discomfort or anything, and I was like, "He's definitely going to be late."
03:02 And the due date was the 2nd of January.
03:04 So 1st of January, I never had it in my mind, but suddenly things happened,
03:10 and then he decided to come on the 1st of January.
03:13 Definitely he chose the right date.
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