I have been sparing with the details of the birth as it’s not something I'd really write up about,

besides the obvious "oh it went well, was quite fast, etc etc..." something funny happened tho & that I do want to share... :D
Was about 4:30 am we had been up & were timing the contractions to see if it was time to go to the hospital. Here in the UK you have to call in advance to let them know you will be arriving. So at about 5:00 we decide it is time & I get to do the phone call. I dial & get a very sweet British midwife on the phone, after a few standard questions I get hit with the weirdest, most unexpected question one could get in this situation here is how it went...
Mid.: (about Letizia) ok, is she Jew?
Me:

(my mind racing trying to figure out why in the world would that even matter.... why a Jew, was it the surname?? NO!!! maybe it was a standard procedure here... a bit confused I mustered a..)

ummm... excuse me?!?!

Again...

Mid.: Is she JEW!!!

At this point I don't know what to say, my mind keeps racing trying to think if maybe it was some request we had made on our previous visit to the ward... I was getting nervous too as I thought it was too weird... what if I was Arab.... I would have hung up the phone, probably sued them...(there are lots of Arabs here, not a very politically correct question)

Me: ummm... (I was blank but I knew I was about to say something stupid as I don't like to ask the same thing more than once.)

Mid.: Jew, when is she Jew

Me: Ohh, due!!!!!! right (now it all made sense)

& on the phone call went...
well it worked out for good as it kept Letizia laughing for the rest of the day.
As for me, I still have a hard time understanding brits when they talk... what can I say, "Jew" & "due" sound totaly different when I say it... it does feel weird to be in an "english" speaking country & most of the time not have a clue of what people are talking about. If you've been here you know what I am saying!