Darius & Kayla Boyd: ‘Meet Our Baby Girl'

As doctors rushed to save his premature baby girl, who was struggling into the world three weeks early, Brisbane Broncos captain Darius Boyd watched helplessly from the sidelines.

- Jenny Brown

The NRL star’s gutsy wife Kayla had been in labour for eight hours, with no result, and their unborn child was now severely distressed. An emergency caesarean was the only option to ensure both mother and daughter survived.

“It was very intense and quite traumatic,” smiles a relieved Kayla, safely back home and tenderly cuddling new arrival Romi Yves Boyd under the watchful gaze of big sister Willow, 4.

“I was getting really stressed and bub was really stressed …

“It’s quite crazy, because it all happened so much earlier than we expected. After my waters broke, we were running around the house packing bags before we raced off to the hospital.

“We didn’t have anything prepared. But Romi was ready and knew what we needed in our lives, I suppose, before we knew. She actually came on my mum’s birthday, the day before my 32nd birthday, so what a gift!”

After the nail-biting, last minute drama, Romi was delivered at 7.40am on Saturday, September 28 at Brisbane’s North West Private Hospital, weighing a healthy 3.2kg and measuring 51cm, with a shock of jet black hair.