GazetteLive has a charming story from the North of England about a mother who went into labour on Remembrance Sunday (November 11th).
The mother, Nicola Dunning, spent most of the 11th in labour and gave birth to her baby early on Monday morning.
Initially expecting a son, the couple’s boy names were blown out the window when their baby daughter was born.
Considering the significance of the day, they settled on the name Poppy.
“My waters broke at around 2am on the Sunday morning, so we thought she must definitely be on her way. We went to James Cook University Hospital, but they told us to come back when my contractions were stronger,” said Nicola.
Nicola returned to the hospital a few hours later and following a 14-hour labour - her 8lb 6oz baby daughter arrived.
She said: “I’d been kind of convinced that I was going to have a baby boy, so we had picked out names for a boy.
“But then in the hospital when I had to think of girl’s names I thought of the name Poppy, which I thought would be nice with it just having been Remembrance Sunday.”
November 18th, 2007 at 2:44 pm
Poppy its a very unusual name, but I like it.