The birth of Elise Cattle’s first child was traumatic. A so-called back-to-back birth – in which the baby’s spine is against the mother’s, making labour longer and more painful – meant the delivery saw her incur a fourth-degree tear, the most severe type that can occur in childbirth.
But, as the weeks went by, rather than the pain subsiding, she remained crippled with it.
‘I couldn’t walk until my son was five weeks old, and I physically couldn’t sit down,’ recalls Elise, 37, from Hull. ‘I’d have to lie down.
‘If my son needed his nappy changing, I had to have him laid
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