Emmerdale‘s Charley Webb and Matthew Wolfenden have opened up about the traumatic birth of their third child.
The couple announced last month that they had welcomed their third child into the world – and they did it with an all-too-adorable Instagram reveal.
The parents-of-three have now revealed in OK! Magazine their newborn is a little boy named Ace, who was born on July 26.
But Ace’s arrival was far from smooth sailing, with Charley – who plays Debbie Dingle – revealing the midwife had to “press the panic button”.
She said:
“The umbilical cord was wrapped around Ace’s neck when he was born. It came off and he was passed to me but I could tell something was wrong.
“Ace wasn’t breathing at first – so the midwife had to press the panic button.”
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Matthew, who plays David Metcalfe, added:
“She said he’d cough and splutter, but he didn’t, so she had Ace on his front and was rubbing his back.
“Eventually – and it felt like an hour but it was probably just seconds – he coughed and was fine.
“By the time someone had come through the door from the panic button being pressed, Ace was breathing again, so it couldn’t have been long. Although it felt like a lifetime.”
Charley continued:
“I felt weirdly calm as I’d only just pushed him out and was a bit zoned out from the gas and air, although I was together enough to see that he wasn’t breathing.”
However, it wasn’t quite the same for Matthew, who admitted he “nearly threw up from the panic.”
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Charley and Matthew have two other sons: Buster and Bowie. The couple have been married since last year.
The pair wed in a secret, surprise ceremony after beginning a relationship in 2007. Matthew, who plays David Metcalfe in the soap, and Charley told their guests that they were celebrating her 30th birthday.
When they all arrived, the pair revealed that they were actually getting married.
