Edgbaston couple celebrate birth of first baby on Christmas Day
OH baby! A Birmingham couple now have their own little Santa after their first child was born on Christmas Day.
Bouncing Krish Sharma came into the world at Solihull Hospital at 12.35am yesterday – making him the first baby to be born at Solihull, Heartlands and Good Hope hospitals on Christmas Day this year.
Proud parents Subani and Sujit Sharma, from Bristol Road, Edgbaston, say he is their best Christmas present ever.
He was due on December 17 but decided to be fashionably late and make a festive entrance.
Mum Subani, aged 28, a fashion designer, said: “It got to December 17 and nothing happened so I was booked in to have him induced on Christmas Eve.
“But we got to the hospital and all the delivery rooms were full so the midwives decided to keep me in and just kept monitoring me and the baby.
“Then at 5pm on Christmas Eve I went into labour naturally and just after midnight gave birth.”
Doting dad Sujit, 29, knew they were in good hands as he is a doctor at Solihull hospital where he is training to be a pyschiatrist.
He said he was overjoyed when he realised they were going to have a Christmas baby.
“When the baby hadn’t arrived by December 17 I said to Subani, ‘that’s great, if you can just hang on in there a bit longer we can have a Christmas baby’ – but because she was very hormonal at that time she just gave me a filthy look.
“And as it got later and later on Christmas Eve I was hoping and praying we would go past midnight and we could go into Christmas Day.”
Subani, who married her doctor husband just over a year ago after meeting him through friends in London, said she was oblivious to Christmas.
“I was so out of it on gas and air that I didn’t pay attention to him going on about Christmas – I was in a different world,” she said.
“I’m just happy he’s arrived and he’s healthy – I’ve now got my own little Santa Claus.”
Sujit said all the signs were there that they would have their first-born on Christmas Day.
“Earlier this month we were due to have an elective Caesarian because he was a breach baby,” he said. “But on December 11 we went into hospital and the consultant turned him into the normal position and said to just leave him and see what happened.
“After that he seemed to like it inside Subani and decided to stay inside until Christmas Day to give himself as a Christmas present!”
