By day five of my labour, I didn’t want an ‘ideal birth’. I only wanted to survive | Natalie Morris
Illustration: PA/Alamy/Getty/Guardian DesignView image in fullscreen Illustration: PA/Alamy/Getty/Guardian DesignOpinionWomen's healthBy day five of my labour, I didn’t want an ‘ideal birth’. I only wanted to surviveNatalie MorrisYvette Cooper’s maternity reforms must change a system that too often fails women when they’re at their most vulnerableThu 6 Aug 2026 11.00 EDTLast modified on Thu 6 Aug 2026 11.01 EDTShareOn the third day of being in labour with my first child, I entered a new state of being. This is what I had learned in all the childbirth classes.
- ▪Illustration: PA/Alamy/Getty/Guardian DesignView image in fullscreen Illustration: PA/Alamy/Getty/Guardian DesignOpinionWomen's healthBy day five of my labour, I didn’t want an ‘ideal birth’.
- ▪I only wanted to surviveNatalie MorrisYvette Cooper’s maternity reforms must change a system that too often fails women when they’re at their most vulnerableThu 6 Aug 2026 11.00 EDTLast modified on Thu 6 Aug 2026 11.01 EDTShareOn the third
- ▪This is what I had learned in all the childbirth classes.
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Illustration: PA/Alamy/Getty/Guardian DesignView image in fullscreen Illustration: PA/Alamy/Getty/Guardian DesignOpinionWomen's healthBy day five of my labour, I didn’t want an ‘ideal birth’. I only wanted to surviveNatalie MorrisYvette Cooper’s maternity reforms must change a system that too often fails women when they’re at their most vulnerableThu 6 Aug 2026 11.00 EDTLast modified on Thu 6 Aug 2026 11.01 EDTShareOn the third day of being in labour with my first child, I entered a new state of being. It was time to dig deep. This is what I had learned in all the childbirth classes. As long as I remained calm, breathed as instructed, moaned through the pain, things would happen as they were meant to. My body knew what it was doing. Only, it didn’t.On the fourth day, I started to beg.
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