When I look at the pictures of me cradling my pregnant tummy and going through my maternity bag, I can’t help but think, "wow, poor six-weeks-ago Amira has no idea what's coming for her."
It’s fair to say my birth experience wasn’t anything near the water birth I had planned. Instead, I endured an agonising 52-hour labour before finally I had to have an emergency C-section in order to meet my baby boy for the first time. It was chaotic, excruciatingly painful and scary. I will never be able to fully describe the relief when they handed him to me.
