SORE POINT

Placing my hand on my back, I slowly walked down the stairs, wincing with each step.

Finally at the bottom, I heaved myself onto the sofa, exhausted.

‘Feeling any better?’ my husband Terry, 32, asked.

‘No,’ I grumbled. A few weeks before, on 22 September 2014, I’d given birth to our daughter Madison at Pembury Hospital.

It was a traumatic 23-hour labour – Madison had been breech, and my placenta