getbracknell - Reading Evening Post

The young midwife Anna, assigned to the birth was a star, so helpful and so calming, even when I felt like I was just getting in the way.

However after a few hours and getting nowhere fast, the head midwife appeared.

My sister was in extreme pain, using only gas and air (for that she will always be my hero) and the head honcho told my sister to push quietly (more than once).

Ermm what?! How do you push a melon from a hole the size of a grape quietly?

I mentioned this to one of my friends and she told me that she was also told to stay silent during the pushing and panting and squeezing….. both gave birth at different hospitals, Royal Berks and Heatherwood.

Is it only childless midwives that would say this?

I noticed the head honcho didn’t wear a wed-ding ring and didn’t look very motherly.

I couldn’t tell if she was into scientology or not but if she had kept on with her ssshing, I would have asked her in no uncertain terms.

Do all you mummies out there really forget the pain or is it just something you say to avoid details when talking to people?

I am starting to think there is a cult that brainwashes new mummies at the breastfeeding clinic after the birth.

How else could your body go through so much in a short space of time and not even a tiny teeny piece of your brain remembers it?