After keeping her waiting for nearly five days, Amelia Reid-Meredith's baby boy surprised her with a quick - but not necessarily easy - delivery.
The Shortland Street star tells this week's edition of New Idea about her delivery room drama during the birth of her first child - a boy called Arlo.
Reid-Meredith, who plays Bella Cooper on the local soap, says she was four days past her due date when she began to feel the first twinges of labour.
By 8am the next day, Reid-Meredith had begun regular contractions and it was then she and husband Shadon Meredith were told the baby had turned posterior - with his head down and his spine against her back.
"That's when we knew it was going to be a long road," she said.
