Mom Has Best Response After Everyone Freaks Out When Her Athlete Husband Left Her In Labor

New parents will do anything to ensure they get to the hospital to support their partners and witness their newborn child’s first moments of life, which is why so many people were shocked when an Australian professional rugby player left his heavily pregnant wife after her water had broken to play in a game with his team.

James Roberts, a star player for the Brisbane Broncos, left his wife Anna after her water broke to play in his team’s game against the South Sydney Rabbitohs. His team and coaches called him ‘selfless’ for potentially sacrificing the life-changing moment to play in the game, which is his full-time job. Yet after the news got out about what had happened, everyone began trashing the rugby player and new father for being so ‘selfish’.

After everyone from news reporters to total strangers started criticising this new mom’s husband, she couldn’t take it any longer and set out to finally set the record straight.

“I would like you to all know that it upsets me to see people talking about my husband in such a negative way. I told James to play that evening because I knew that our baby boy wouldn’t arrive until after the game as I was not in ‘early labour’ at that point in time,” Anna said. “James is such a loving, caring and nurturing father who was by my side the whole way through the birth of our very first son and never left my side!”

“While James was at the game, doing what he loves and does best, I was surrounded by my extended family from Sydney and mother in law while James was at the stadium,” Anna continued. “It was not until early hours of Sunday morning that I gave birth and James played football on the Friday night, which is nearly 48hours after playing.”

“James delivered our son with the assistance of the awesome team of midwives at the Gold Coast hospital! James is an extremely supportive, loyal, loving and kind hearted man who would never be so selfish or selfless to leave me by myself to give birth!”

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