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Do the daddy dash!

Emily Buxton Anderson, 24, Clay Cross

Lying on the sofa, stroking my belly, I felt my baby kick.

‘Hello, little one,’ I giggled.

It was Christmas Day last year and, as my new hubby Jordan, then 24, rested his hand over mine, I felt a rush of contentment.

Discovering I was expecting soon after we were married had sealed our happiness.

Now, with my little one happily kicking away and just nine weeks until I was due, my mind whirred with a birth plan.

‘I want a water birth and a playlist filled with Johnny Cash and

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