Something weird happens to people when they find out they’re having a baby. They do things that they – rational, sensible, grown-up people, people who have kitchen islands and know exactly which day is right for recycling – never saw themselves doing.
Suddenly, they find themselves paying hundreds of pounds to go to NCT classes to make friends with other pregnant people. They attend sessions at the local hospital where they learn how to handle a giant, woolly womb. They listen to hypnobirthing tapes and talk about “breathing the baby out” or wanting to “give birth without pain relief”. They even go to gong baths.
