Made in Chelsea star Jamie Laing may have saved his wife Sophie Habboo and baby son Ziggy as he alerted doctors that something was wrong during the final stages of labour.
Jamie and Sophie document the birth on series Raising Chelsea
Jamie Laing has recalled the terrifying moment he realised something wasn’t right during wife Sophie Habboo’s labour back in December. The Made in Chelsea star was in the final stages of delivery when Jamie spotted something worrying, and called for help.
Speaking about the birth of their son Ziggy, Jamie, 37, insisted he wanted to “experience everything” and so was keen on watching it all unfold, which is how he noticed something was wrong.
He told Jessie Ware’s Table Manners: “There was so much water and then, I also just kept looking the whole time, because I wanted to see what was going on. There was one point I looked down – I was the one who said it doesn’t quite look right.”
The couple welcomed baby Ziggy in December(Image: jamielaing/Instagram)
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He realised that their baby boy was in an unsafe position and being born hand-first, which he described as looking like “a tarantula ready to pounce”.
That led to the medical experts taking Sophie, 31, for an emergency c-section where they safely welcomed little Ziggy into the world.
Sophie explained: “It ended up in a C-section. I laboured the whole way to nine centimetres. So the baby had his hand coming out of the cervix. So when I said, I’m so dilated, I need to push – he looked and actually laughed, our doctor.
“He was like, ‘God, what are the chances you are ready to push,’ but the hand was poking out.”
Jamie admitted he inititally panicked when she was taken into theatre: “We were expecting to have this normal natural birth, and it’d be totally fine and magical, and all these different things and then suddenly, this thing happened where it was an emergency C-section. And when that happens, you panic.
The couple captured Ziggy’s arrival for their new series Raising Chelsea(Image: Youtube/Disney Plus)
“And I was in this complete panic zone. Soph was staying so calm. It was insane. I was suddenly in scrubs, the whole thing was just wild. We got taken to the theatre, and by the time they said you need an emergency C section now to the point where we’re getting ready to go, it’s like five minutes. It’s instant.”
He added that in the end Ziggy’s arrival was “magical” and the anaesthetist filmed it for their Disney series Raising Chelsea, out April 2nd.
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