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Howdy. We've moved from Cayce, but St. Elizabeth of South Rose Hill or Lizette de Waccamaw de Sud just don't do it for me.

Thursday, September 28, 2006

There's so much wrong with this

I hardly know where to begin.

New Mum married just seven hours after giving birth (actually, more like 13 hours, but that was after the hair appt.)

I'll start with leaving the fragile preemie to attend a party (this wedding sounded more like a party than a sacrament.) Is there nothing that interferes with what you'e planned? Am I completely out of touch?

A bride-to-be rushed to make her white wedding just hours after giving birth to a baby boy - delivered three months early. Plucky secretary Nicky Heys, 35, was rushed to hospital just in time to give birth to baby Harry - who weighed just 1lb and 12 oz. But Nicky wasn't going to let that stop her from celebrating her big day and just seven hours later she discharged herself from hospital to get her hair done.

Nicky then walked down the aisle with new dad and hubby Neal Agar, 33, and tied the knot in front of 100 overjoyed guests - even managing to DANCE at the reception. The couple then cancelled their planned two-week honeymoon to the Maldives - to spend time by baby Harry's incubator.

Tired, but overjoyed Nicky, said the couple were astonished when the contractions started - the night before her wedding. She said: "Neal and I had gone out for dinner at the same restaurant where we had our first date, when I started having stomach pains. But we thought it was nothing, just wedding jitters. The baby wasn't due for another three months but as soon as I got home the pains got worse. We rushed to hospital but when we got there, the doctors said I was fully dilated and the baby was coming - my little boy popped out half an hour later, 12 weeks early."

But as soon as the couple heard baby Harry was fine, Nicky was determined to go ahead with her big day. She discharged herself from the hospital at 10 am on Saturday morning and raced into Bristol for her hair appointment. She said: "I went and got my dress from the shop - amazingly it fitted. And I went to my hair and make-up appointments on time. Everything was exactly as we planned - except we had a baby. I just couldn't take it in at that point. The wedding was just so special."

..at 3am - Nicky gave birth to tiny Harry, who weighed just 1lb and 12oz - despite being due on December 20. He was immediately put in an incubator to help him breathe - but doctors assured the frantic couple he would be fine. Nicky added: "We were so worried about Harry but doctors told us that he was stable, even though he was so small. A few hours after the birth, the doctor asked if we had anything to do today. I said 'I've got a wedding to go to. It's mine!' "

...Brave Nicky left hospital at 10 am - just seven hours after her traumatic birth- to get her hair done with her two bridesmaids. And at 4 pm, the blushing bride walked down the aisle at St Luke's Church, Brislington, Bristol, in front of 100 happy guests. After the wedding, the couple went to their reception at The Beeches Hotel, Bristol, where Nicky DANCED with Neal and mingled with guests until 10 pm.

Nicky said: "We hoped we would make it through the reception dinner and have the first dance together to our favourite song - in the end we had several dances." The exhausted couple then cancelled their planned two-week honeymoon to the Maldives and raced back to the hospital to see Harry, with Nicky still in her wedding dress.

Nicky's mum Lin Heys, 60, added: "It was so special. The vicar told everyone what had happened and people burst out clapping in the church. But of course, everyone who was making speeches at the reception had to change them to mention Harry."


Notice that Mom is Brave AND Plucky. And that she DANCED. Hope this goes into the Baby Book.

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