Duchess Kate 'Don't know sex' of baby, The Duchess of Cambridge is planning to give birth naturally and has chosen the same private hospital where her husband was born to deliver the future baby king or queen, royal sources revealed today.
The royal mother-to-be is definitely not ‘too posh to push’ and wants - unless nature intervenes - to opt for a natural birth rather than an elective caesarean section like many celebrity figures, MailOnline understands.
The royal mother-to-be is definitely not ‘too posh to push’ and wants - unless nature intervenes - to opt for a natural birth rather than an elective caesarean section like many celebrity figures, MailOnline understands.
Kate, 31, who is expecting her first baby in mid-July, will give birth to the new third-in-line-to-the-throne at the private Lindo Wing of St Mary’s Hospital in Paddington, west London, where Prince William was delivered in 1982.
Significantly, our sources also strongly hinted that Kate's family - particularly her mother, Carole Middleton, and sister, Pippa - are likely to be present at the hospital during her labour.
Remarkably, this means that the Middleton family may learn the sex of the new-born future king or queen before even the present Queen herself.
Sources have told MailOnline that Kate is particularly keen to have her family around her as anxious father-to-be William, 30, may be on duty in North Wales, where he is still working as a Search and Rescue pilot at RAF Valley on Anglesey, when the baby arrives.
William is said to be determined to make it to the delivery suite, following in the footsteps of his own father who broke royal tradition to be with his wife, Diana, Princess of Wales, for the birth of both their children. Previous heirs have been born at home or Buckingham Palace.
As a result, plans are currently being formulated by palace aides to whisk him down to London by helicopter so he can be present at his son or daughter’s birth.
The royal couple are bucking the trend because they do not want to know their baby's gender.
Mr Clive Spence Jones, consultant gynaecologist and obstetrician at the Whittington Hospital in north London, said that from his experience around 75 per cent of parents choose to discover the sex of their baby.
‘The option to find out is widely available to pregnant mother at 20 weeks,’ he said. 'While three quarters of mothers choose to find out if their having a boy or a girl, there is a significant minority who choose to leave it as a surprise.'
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