Sophie Smith

I met Ash a week before the Olympics and we had our first date on the night of the opening ceremony of the Olympics and the city was abuzz and the next two weeks was just like a whirlwind of, you know, fun as, you know, we met and we fell in love and we were, you know, Sydney was just on fire then and we were having a great time and really we just, we...

we just had a really great time together and then we moved in together and um it was actually five years later we finally got married and then we were like right let's let's do this let's have kids and so you were 35 then and you were like now's the time

Yeah, I'm like, come on, let's get on with it.

I always wanted to have a big family and, you know, I love kids.

And I was working as a primary school teacher at the time.

And I, yeah, Ash and I were, and Ash was so excited as well.

He was, yeah, he was a great dad.

Our boys were his pride and joy, every, all five of them.

21 weeks, yeah.

So yes, I was in the supermarket one morning and

And I felt this sort of, I thought, oh, have I just wet myself?

That's weird.

I didn't really panic because I just thought, oh, it must be some weird pregnancy thing.

I've just had some bladder leak.

So I carried on with my supermarket shop.

And then as I was getting home and I was carrying my bags in, as I was walking up the stairs to the house, I suddenly felt this second sort of gush, much bigger than the first.

And then I just thought,

oh, that's really weird.

But still, because it was so early on in the pregnancy, I didn't think it was my water's breaking because I didn't really think that that happened 21 weeks into your pregnancy.

And often there's a lot of liquid in pregnancies anyway.