“Given how many years I spent trying to get pregnant, you’d think I’d have been more clued up when I went into labour. Instead, when my waters broke three weeks early while I was at work, I just thought, ‘Wow!
This baby is really putting pressure on my pelvic floor!’ and kept on working.
That evening, my husband Dan and I joked that I’d sprung a leak – but in defence of our naivety, it was much more subtle than you see in the movies!
I was possibly also subconsciously trying to keep the baby put for a little longer. I’d ‘decided’ I was going to go to full term, because Dan was shooting his first feature film as lead producer, right up until the day
