Before the millennium everyone was panicking about the millennium bug and whether computer systems would work when the clocks went past midnight.
And for Margaret Clarke, a midwife at Ipswich Hospital, she was worried it might affect the computers and systems they used in the Maternity department.
Margaret was on the day shift having recently returning to work after having her own four children.
Fortunately everything still worked when 1999 rolled into 2000 and Margaret was able to deliver one of the first millennium babies at Ipswich Hospital safe and sound – baby Lacey.
Margaret, who is still a midwife, said: “We all thought the computer systems were going to crash so it was quite a relief when everything was all fine.
“And then baby Lacey made her entrance to mum Rachel with her partner Jeremy there. It was lovely.”
So 25 years on when a pregnant Lacey came into Ipswich Hospital to give birth Margaret realised it was the millennium baby she’d delivered on 1 January 2000.
Margaret said: “When Lacey and her partner Bradley came into hospital it rang a bell – and it was her. So I’d delivered her and now was there with her and her partner to support her giving birth to baby Delilah.”
Lacey Cook said: “To have the same lovely lady bring my first daughter into this world who brought me, my mum’s first daughter, is incredible. We knew we would be in the safest of hands.
“It really is a full circle moment. Our family will forever we grateful to Margaret.”
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