birth

"The stitches post birth were genuinely worse than the birth itself."
"I woke up in a recovery room. No one was around... at first."
"I wasn’t going to listen to anyone telling me she wouldn’t survive."
"I told my husband I could feel the head. He told me to calm down."
"They don’t realise how powerful their attentiveness and empathy really are."
"After having gas and air, I felt like I was in a nightclub."
'I checked his hands, counted his fingers, legs, toes.'