Whether it’s a water birth, home birth, hypno or hospital birth, there are a variety of helpful classes available to mothers-to-be so they can prepare for the ideal arrival of their baby.
This week, however, in a move that will horrify most parents-to-be, it emerged that classes are being offered for the kind of birth no mother ever wants – how to have a baby in a car or by the roadside.
It comes after North Devon District Hospital in Barnstaple closed its birthing wing due to staff shortages, forcing pregnant women to travel more than an hour and a half to
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