A Taylor Swift fan had a night to remember at the pop star’s Melbourne concert on Saturday night — for more than one reason.
On Saturday, Swiftie Tenille Smith shared a pre-concert picture of herself outside the MCG, heavily pregnant with her second child, but ready to enjoy the show.
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“39+5 and we’ve made it to Taylor Swift 🪩💘,” her post was captioned, meaning she was 39 weeks and five days pregnant.
In the picture, Smith is wearing a body-hugging sparkly dress and metallic pink cowboy boots, clearly excited that she’s about to see Swift in concert.
In a second picture, the mum-to-be poses with two other friends ahead of the concert.
On Monday, former 7NEWS journalist and 3AW radio host Jacqui Felgate revealed that Smith had started having contractions during the concert — and gave birth to a baby girl later that night.
“How it started vs how it’s going,” Felgate’s Instagram post was captioned.
Smith stayed at the concert as the contractions began — and once the three-hour concert was over, she hotfooted to Werribee’s Mercy Hospital Maternity and gave birth.
Her little girl’s name? Sloane Tayla Smith.
Smith also provided an update, sharing a photo of her newborn baby.
“Sloane Tayla Smith. Making a quick entrance on February 17th, weighing 3.7kg at 1.20am,” Tenille Smith wrote.
“(Approximately 2 hours after the Swiftie concert concluded).
“The perfect addition to our little family 🩷✨.”
Eagle-eyed followers noticed that Sloane was wearing what appeared to be a tiny little Swiftie friendship bracelet.
“Ahhh wearing a Swiftie bracelet ?! 😍” one follower wrote.
“Congratulations Tilly she’s a doll 💓💓.”
“Omg did you go straight to the delivery room!!!! What a story!!!” wrote another.
“So beautiful, congratulations ❤️(can’t believe you got the concert beforehand lol),” wrote a third.
Beneath Felgate’s post, one midwife noted that she’d seen the expecting mum in the crowd at the MCG.
“I’m a midwife and I saw her walk past me in the crowd and I thought ‘heavens what if she goes into labour!’,” the midwife wrote.
“Congratulations!!!”
“If this isn’t girl power, I don’t know what is,” another wrote.
“The euphoria would have been the biggest pain distraction!” observed one.
Speaking to Felgate on radio, the new mum said she’d started feeling some Braxton Hicks contractions earlier in the day but decided she’d still try to get to the concert.
“I thought, ‘I just gotta get through (to) midnight,” she explained.
“It wasn’t till about halfway through the concert did I realise they were actually labour contractions.”
After the concert had finished, Smith even had enough time to swap out of her Swiftie outfit into “normal clothes” before going to hospital around 1am and requesting a cervix exam.
“The midwife tells me I’m only 2cm dilated and I’m in agony, so she goes to get me some Panadol, and she comes back (a few minutes) later, and I’ve given birth to her in the bathroom.”
It’s certainly not the first time a fan has gone into labour at a Taylor Swift concert.
In July last year, a Swiftie went into labour at the end of her concert in Ohio.
Tori Ernst later told WMTV that she was still at the venue when she thought, I think I got to go to the bathroom’.
Her due date was two weeks away — but her baby had other ideas.
“When my friend realised what was happening, she started freaking out and grabbed whoever the first person she could find,” Ernst said.
“We were just happy we could get down there and go, hoping that I would be able to make it, and luckily was able to make it for the most part.
“People say that I started my new era as being a mother, so leave the Eras Tour and go into my new one.”
Fellow American singer Pink, also currently on tour in Australia, stopped one of her Sydney shows after being told a woman was going into labour.
Video captured the moment the singer paused her show at Allianz Stadium after fans alerted her to a pregnant audience member who needed medical assistance.
As the woman was taken out of the venue, Pink yelled, “congratulations!”
“Is it Alecia or Alex being born right now?” (Pink’s real name is Alecia Moore).
“I feel like we shouldn’t be looking.
“Everyone give her her privacy!”
It later transpired that the woman, hadn’t gone into labour, but rather had fainted.
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