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A Song for Tomorrow

Alice Peterson

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I was fooled into believing giving birth second time round is easier. They say you know what to expect. Well, I could never have expected nor imagined these past few months.My second child was born two weeks early in a London nursing home run by nuns but with ordinary nurses who were midwives too. It was where my first son, Jake, was born two years ago. I was bleeding badly, so badly that the obstetrician said we had to get the baby out quickly. I could sense fear all around me, from the midwife to my husband, Nicholas. The obstetrician said our baby’s heart was in difficulty. What did he mean, in difficulty? I was given an epidural for the last part and wondered why I’d turned it down for Jake. All the pain stopped. Suddenly I felt more at peace but I only had to look at Nicholas’s face to know things were still far from right. ‘Is everything OK?’ I asked Sister Eve, longing for her to put my mind at rest. ‘We are doing everything we possibly can, Mary, try to relax,’ she said. I knew then something was terribly wrong.

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