Translation of transcript in Billed Bladet #02, 2011 when Frederik met the press at Rigshospitalet after the birth of the twins.
Part one:
“I’m here to tell about a good event. The Crown Princess, my wife (formal word), Mary has given birth to two healthy children. First a boy….. and then a girl.
The boy weighs 2.674 grams and the girl 2.554. The boy is 47 centimeters long and the girl 46 centimeters long and they were with about half an hour’s interval, the first around 10.30 and the girl about half an hour later at 10.56.
Considering the circumstances the mother and the children are really, really well – just like the father.
One is this long and the other so tall.
In some way it’s a double trouble with two. You have to be extra aware of them, because there are two. There are more precautions, which have to be taken. But it’s with much more ease of mind that I now stand here. Because we have been very pleased with the maternity team, whom the Crown Princess and I know well and who has made us feel very secure”.
Q: How has this birth been in relation to the others?
“It has in many ways been as it was the first time. But this time there were two individuals inside my wife’s (formal word) belly and all the time one has of course been thinking: - Let everything go well. – There are two little hearts you have to keep an eye on all the time, and there is of course double control. But when that is said, it has been a lovely time. The pregnancy has progressed well and completely undramatic. And the birth itself here has been fantastic to be a part of once again. I will say, a miracle. A miracle times two”.
Q: How was it to be a birth-helper?
“I am mostly an assessor (*) and mental support (**)… in some way without specifically being of use in anything than I was being present. And absorbed it all and enjoying every second (***). That’s very important. I didn’t wish to hit the floor from excitement and expectations, and I didn’t”.
Q: You said when Isabella was born that you were more present the second time. How did you experience it here the third and fourth time?
“Yes, that’s obvious, when you are in here and know the surroundings from prior births, I think you leave that behind you and can prepare yourself for the birth itself. That in itself is an exciting and indescribably sensation. Perhaps particularly in the months up to (the birth), where there is double control and double attention about it, because there are two. Two hearts beating”.
Q: Did you cut the umbilical cord yourself as you did at the previous births?
“Yes, I was as close and as involved as I possibly could”.
Q: How was it to stand with a little newborn on the arm, knowing that one more was on the way?
“It’s so close to being unreal. You stand for a little half hour with the firstborn, while the mother must work on, struggle on… in a good sense. And then all of a sudden there is a girl coming half an hour later. It’s fantastic”.
Q: How have you yourself followed the pregnancy?
“I have been following it and known that they are as well as possible and that’s after all the main thing. In regards to the age of the mother, there is a lot of emphasis on taking some amniocentesis tests and determine as early as possible that there isn’t things you should be afraid of”.
Q: So you knew it would be a boy and a girl?
“Yes, we did – at some point”.
Q: How about Prince Christian and Princess Isabella. Have they been told and how?
“They have seen their mother’s fantastically beautiful belly and I do believe it’s still a bit unreal. Our daughter is more over in the girly-division, so she thinks it’s a pair of dolls that are coming”.
Q: Could you keep back the tears this time?
“No, you shouldn’t do that if you can help it. Because it’s such a big element in your life”.
Q: How do the children look like?
“They look the way newborn do, but they look good. And they are both born with dark hair. So there can be no doubt as to who the parents are”.
Q: How has the Crown Princess manged it?
“It has been impressive. And I can only bow deep down in the dust for all women (****), and for what they can accomplish in connection with a birth”.
Q: Have you spoken with the children?
“Which ones?
The first two or the two new ones? No, Christian and Isabella will come a little later, now they must have time to wake up a little first”.
Q: What is your expectations to the life of father to four? (*****)
“Ha, ha, yes, now we are starting on that. One day at a time, one period at a time, with children in diapers and all that and one for each hand”.
Q: Who screamed the loudest after the birth?
“They both sounded off and that was the most important thing for me”.
Q: We assume you have now also had time to call your mother, the Queen?
“Yes, absolutely”.
) has resigned and a new chairman is stepping in. - I don't think M&F mind! Some of the articles in connection with this birth were getting pretty silly...
