Thea is actually very nurturing already — she always puts her hand on it to feel it kicking and she gives it little kisses. I feel so comfortable at home. Continue reading your story on the app. Continue reading your story in the magazine. The Treasure Island host and radio star reveals her heartbreaking medical condition. The Christchurch singer has wowed the judges of the Aussie talent show.
After exiting Treasure Island, the radio star was left crying on the beach. While Ali breathed through her rapidly intensifying contractions, she had a very strong sensation that she needed to push. So the second it was deep enough for my body to be immersed, I climbed into the pool and, two minutes later, Jemima was born.
Her midwife arrived shortly afterward to find Ali lying in the pool, baby on her chest, and dad Jo tending to them both.
But at one point during the labour, I remember telling him, 'Hey, I think you need to stop for a minute and tell me that I'm doing well! Beautiful Jemima is, says Ali, more like a Pugh than a Barus — fair-skinned and blue-eyed — and her name is an extremely special nod to the wonderful uncle she will never meet. As for her middle name Goldie? We just really love it. While most new mums struggle with sleep deprivation and low energy, for Ali, having a newborn has been a blessed relief.
That's because during the later stages of her pregnancy, she suffered from a medical condition called pruritic urticarial papules and plaques of pregnancy — or PUPPP for short. It's an itchy sensation that covered her entire body and was only resolved when Jemima was born.
I'd be having multiple cold showers and trying to distract myself by watching movies all night because I just couldn't sleep. It was quite debilitating. Every third or fourth sentence of this anecdote is punctuated with a huge laugh. Natural disasters aside, Pugh says the past couple of years have been more relaxed than the previous ones, a change of pace she credits to moving back to her hometown. Follow us on Facebook and Instagram here. Sign up for our monthly newsletter here.
Ali makes her debut on Breakfast with Rawdon. Currently living out of a hotel room after hurriedly relocating to Auckland to take her place on the Breakfast couch, Ali and her partner of seven years Jonathan have plenty of big decisions to make as they plan their new lives in the big city.
But you have to be yourself. New Zealanders can spot a fake a mile away! And, of course, she has the unwavering support of her proud family, especially her older sister Penny, who lives in Japan.
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