Two days after giving birth, Juliana Nascimento Barbosa is still ecstatic about becoming a mother. “I’m so happy to have my baby,” she says from her bed in Queen’s hospital in Romford, Essex, smiling broadly.
To her left, her husband, Emerson, sits on a chair. To her right, their newborn son Dominic lies on a neonatal resuscitaire receiving phototherapy, a light treatment to help relieve his jaundice.