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My Surrogate Home Birth Story: Part I

My active early labour before the midwife arrived

The author and their partner during early labour © Kim Barrett

I wanted to wait to write this until I had my maternity notes, so I could cross-reference them with my own recollection (and that of my partner, Thomas’). However, my midwives wouldn’t let me scan the notes before they took them back to the hospital after I gave birth, and there’s been…