birth
"The stitches post birth were genuinely worse than the birth itself."
A midwife walked us through the steps.
"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."
No two births are ever the same.
"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 lost my voice, I’d been screaming so hard."
'I checked his hands, counted his fingers, legs, toes.'