When our friends had their first baby nearly two years ago he was very ill with a liver complaint and spent an agonisingly long spell in hospital.
When they fell with their second baby "mum" developed pregnancy related diabetes and has had to go in to hospital for the baby to receive steroid injections to prepare him for an early arrival.
He's been born today a month early and all is well but "dad" isn't allowed in to the hospital to see him or his mum because he's got chicken pox.