Isobel’s birth uncut
If you do not enjoy seeing childbirth in its full, bloody, over-18 glory, please do not read. It began soon after the labour ward sent me home. I was just 1cm dilated, despite having contractions 3-4...
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Friday was a strange day. Just seven-and-a-half hours before the Deaf Parenting UK Awards – which I’d planned to attend as a nominee – was due to start, along came a leak. “Was that your waters...
View ArticleThe arrival of Benedict
Her name was Lynn, the midwife who stayed with us from nine o’clock through to morning: a larger-than-life beautiful black woman from Zimbabwe whose engaging warmth belied her eight years of working in...
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