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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Morwenna Ferrier

My most romantic moment: I had just given birth – and my boyfriend made me a perfect bowl of pasta

Illustration showing a new mother holding her baby and a bowl of pasta

The best gestures usually arrive when you are bone-tired.

Mine was a bowl of ragu pasta, my first meal after leaving hospital with our newborn son. I ate it in bed. I have no idea what time it was. You might have heard a lot of tall tales about that first slice of flaccid toast you eat in hospital after pushing out a baby. This was my flaccid toast.

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