After having an emergency caesarean section in July 2021, Josie found herself in a Bristol hospital feeling “pretty rotten”. Originally from Bedfordshire, she had moved to the area for her job in the civil service and didn’t have family living nearby. While lying in the hospital bed, she remembers overhearing someone speaking Welsh next to her. “Sarah was having a long video call,” she says. “I loved her accent and thought it sounded as if she was having a really good time talking to her family.”
The next day, Josie’s baby was taken to the neonatal intensive care unit (Nicu) for monitoring. “She’d gone all floppy,” says Josie. “I didn’t know what was wrong with her and I was on my own because of restricted visiting times due to Covid.”
