She welcomed her first child with boyfriend Sam Mucklow in November.
But it seemed that Shelby Tribble opted to wait until the very end of her pregnancy to begin learning about the business of labour, as she began reading up on the birthing process just a week before her due date.
In scenes aired during Wednesday’s Celebrity Bumps, the TOWIE star confessed she and beau Sam needed to ‘get organised’ as they ‘didn’t have a clue’ what to expect from labour.
Left it late? TOWIE star Shelby Tribble admitted she was reading up on labour just a week before her due date as she counted down to the birth of her first child in Celebrity Bumps
As Shelby counted down the final days before her due date, she and Sam admitted the nerves were starting to set in.
Asking her boyfriend: ‘What would we do if I went into labour?’ he responded: ‘Well I haven’t thought about it. I think it’s gonna just be a big old panic.
‘I feel like I should have been on the internet, but I was reading the SAS man.’
Later in the show Shelby, who gave birth to son Abel in November, revealed she was reading up on labour online to try and get clued up before her waters broke.
Funny: The star got a hilarious lesson on cervix dilation with the help of a few household items during the MTV show
Not long now! As Shelby counted down the final days before her due date, she and Sam admitted the nerves were starting to set in
She said to the camera: ‘So I’m getting a little bit nervous now and quite scared, I’m literally a week from my due date.
‘Me and Sam need to get organised and read up on what’s about to happen, I’ve got now clue hence why I’m on the internet right now.’
Later in the show Shelby and Sam also got a practical lesson in dilation, lining up different household items to show how her cervix would stretch in preparation for labour.
dramatic: Asking her boyfriend: ‘What would we do if I went into labour?’ he responded: ‘Well I haven’t thought about it. I think it’s gonna just be a big old panic’
Lessons in labour: Later in the show Shelby, who gave birth to son Abel in November, revealed she was reading up on giving birth to try and get clued up before her waters broke
The pair were stunned to learn their baby boy would have to be pushed through a space with a diameter no bigger then a bagel.
MTV kicked off its new series Celebrity Bumps with a slew of stars preparing to become parents.
Among them was Charlotte Dawson, who broke down in tears as she realised her son Noah would never meet her late dad Les;
The show saw the Ex On The Beach star, 28, speaking to her mum Tracy about her life with the late comic, who died in 1993.
Difficult: Earlier in the show Charlotte Dawson broke down in tears as she realised her son Noah would never meet her late dad Les
Charlotte, who was 27 weeks pregnant at the time, paid a visit to her mum Tracy to look at photos of her dad Les, so she could replicate them with her baby son.
The star also revealed she was going to tell Tracy the name she’d chosen for her baby boy as she counted down to the arrival of her bundle of joy with fiancé Matthew Sarsfield.
She announced: ‘We’re gonna call him Noah Dawson Sarsfield. The reason why we’re calling him Noah, me and Matthew were drunk four years ago, put the Notebook on you know that really romantic film. And he cried and I thought, Matthew’s The One.
RIP: The Ex on the Beach star reflected on her late dad, who died in 1993 when she was just eight months old
Tough: The then-pregnant Ex On The Beach star spoke to her mum Tracy about her life with the late comic
Sweet: As Charlotte looked at the photos of her late father taken when she was a baby, she also told her mum that she’d chosen her baby boy’s name, and would be calling him Noah
And then the guy was called Noah on it, and I said ‘I love that name’ and he said ”me too.” And he said ”if we ever have a little boy let’s call him Noah.” We’ve never gone off it.’
Charlotte’s mum said her dad Les would be ‘so proud’ of his daughter, with the reality star adding in a candid confessional: ‘I am so grateful for my mum because she’s just kept his memory alive so much.
‘And I just love her for that because I feel like he’s been around me every single day of my life.
‘I really feel for her, she went through a traumatic time when my dad died. And especially having an eight month old baby.
Hard: Charlotte’s mum said her dad Les would be ‘so proud’ of his daughter, with the star dding: ‘I’m so lucky having all them pictures to look back on forever’
‘She’s been everything to me, she’s been my mum and dad all in one, she’s had to bring me up on her own and she’s just been the best person. I’m so lucky to have her, and I think my dad would be so proud of her.
‘I just melts my heart seeing how he was with me. I’m so lucky having all them pictures to look back on forever. And show little Noah how amazing his granddad was.’
But it soon hit home for Charlotte, who was just eight months old when her dad Les died, that her baby boy would never get the chance to meet his granddad, as she broke down in tears later in the clip.
Emotional: But it soon hit home for Charlotte that her baby boy would never get the chance to meet his granddad, as she broke down in tears later in the clip
Journey: Charlotte stars with fiancé Matthew Sarsfield in the first episode of of Celebrity Bumps: Famous and Pregnant, which follows their lives from pregnancy to birth
She emotionally added: ‘It’s been a really emotional day, like going through all the pictures and just reflecting on, on everything really.
‘It’s just like I can’t believe really, you know, Noah isn’t gonna get to meet his granddad and I just feel that life is just unfair sometimes.’
Charlotte stars with Matthew in the first episode of of Celebrity Bumps: Famous and Pregnant, which follows their lives from pregnancy to birth, with the couple even filming Noah’s arrival for the show.
The star previously admitted her partner Matthew needed some convincing before signing up to the MTV show after living his life away from the cameras.
‘He found it difficult’: The star previously admitted her partner Matthew needed some convincing before signing up to the MTV show after living his life away from the cameras