BRYONY GORDON: This is the reason why there’s such a drive for ‘natural births’ in the NHS. I was cancelled by my NCT instructor when I dared to speak out… but women deserve better

I still remember the moment I was cancelled by my NCT instructor.

Though it was over 13 years ago, it’s lingered in my memory, much like the labour itself, which went on for almost three days and ended with my daughter being cut out of my abdomen via an emergency C-section.

It was all a bit of a shock, given that said NCT instructor had refused to talk me through such an eventuality in the ante-natal classes I’d paid hundreds of pounds to attend.

As we came to the end of a session, in which the instructor spoke at length about water births,

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