Wendy works at UCH and she’s got four children of her own, all born by caesarean section. She works nights on the premature baby ward so she can be with her children in the day time.

Obviously I’m a kick ass person and I sort of expected myself to give birth and then get straight back to work. But I had a lot of complications – everything that could go wrong, went wrong. I had premature ruptured waters two months early and ended up giving birth a month early, too. I had an infection and then the baby had an infection, and I lost a lot of blood.

I think I slept for about three hours in the days after giving birth. On the third night I buzzed my buzzer at 4am and Wendy came in, and I said to her, ‘I think the doctor has sewn my head onto the wrong body’. She laughed and said, ‘everyone’s a bit mad on the third day. I’ve done it four times babe, don’t worry’. Then she took the baby for the night and I slept for seven hours, and when she came back in the morning I was quite embarrassed.

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