Ali’s lucky last ‘I DELIVERED MY BABY MY SELF!’
Ali Pugh is a great believer in knowing your body, understanding your limits and trusting your instincts. So when it became clear that the 1 News reporter and former Breakfast host’s adorable newborn daughter Jemima Goldie was coming, ready or not, she felt nothing but calm and confident.
“In the end, the midwife couldn’t make it in time, so I delivered her myself!” the 35-year-old laughs, the sheer beauty of that extraordinary moment clearly still sinking in.
Ali – who also home-birthed her older daughters Theadora, now five, and Heidi, two – says she and husband Jo Barus had always planned on having Jemima at home too.
“I’m absolutely not against hospitals or anything like that,” Christchurch-based Ali is quick to point out,
