giving birth
"I’ll be going in to labour with the full knowledge that as a brown woman I face significant bias."
In the movies, a few pants and pushes and you're handed a clean baby, not a single hair out of place. In real life? You are butt naked in a room full of strangers, making noises normally heard on a farm.
"You do need to concentrate and their support was just perfect.”
The findings “challenge the routine use of pethidine” for women giving birth.
'There really isn’t as much mess as people think.'
Certainly an unorthodox way to bring on labour!
WaterAid wants to ensure all healthcare facilities have access to clean water.
'I’m pleased I missed the pain.'
We are feeling impatient.
'Let’s do this then.'