Susanna Reid and Kate Garraway scolded Ben Shephard after he revealed he made his wife Annie walk to the pub days after delivering their son Sam by caesarean.
Reid and Garraway threatened to hook him up to a labour simulating machine after Shephard made the shock confession while discussing the arrival of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s newborn son, Archie Harrison.
“After Sam was born, I suggested that we needed to get out the house a few days later,” he said. “So I got Annie to walk to the pub with the baby.”
Reid then asked her co-host “how long the labour had been” but was left gobsmacked when Shephard revealed Annie “didn’t have long” because she had had a caesarean.
“Hang on a moment,” Reid gasped. “After she had major surgery and was recovering [you said] come on Annie, it’s only a small cut…”
Shephard continued: “I didn’t say that. It became very apparent after not very long that it wasn’t the best idea. It [her walking] was a bit slow…”
He then explained that Annie’s father went and got the car to drive Annie back home while he stayed in the pub with Sam, who is their younger son having welcomed Jack in 2005.
Shephard joked: “It was a lovely memory that we still share now…she brings it up on occasion…”
Garraway said his anecdote had made Piers Morgan “suddenly seem a bit more reasonable”.
Morgan was hooked up to a TENS machine after previously questioning the pain women go through during birth.
Things got off to a painful start for Morgan when he winced and asked “what level” the simulator was onm only to be told it was still on zero.
He then experienced “contractions” on level 20 and level 50 before begging for it to be turned off before the dial hit 60.
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