When Naomi Gryn was pregnant with her daughter, Sadie, she decided not to do NCT classes for fear of being seen as “freakish”. Nor did she feel entirely at home in the London hospital where she gave birth.
“Then there was an awful moment when the obstetrician looked at me condescendingly and said ‘well, you’ll probably go into distress and we’ll have to do an emergency C-section anyway, so why don’t we just cut to the chase?’. I didn’t want to be this fussy woman in her 50s who was insisting on a vaginal birth and felt judged by some of the doctors, like ‘well, since you’ve been a silly lady and put yourself into this situation, I suppose we’ve got to sort it out for you’.”
