No-one can predict how difficult giving birth or raising a baby will be, but everything is easier with the support of friends and family.
Linda dreams that everything involving birth and the months that follow are going to be perfect but the TV brings her back to reality. Thankfully Linda's family is there for reassurance.
Linda:
It’s just all come so naturally, really don’t know what I was worried about. I mean, it helps that he sleeps through most nights and he took to the breast straight away. My body just sort of snapped right back. In fact, I feel better than ever. Almost like I’ve been reborn myself. There’s this incredible sense of peace.
Josh’s been amazing, really hands on. Watches Kai whenever I want a break. He took him while I did my yoga yesterday… You’ve really got to make time for exercise I think. No essentially at the end of the day when all’s said and done, he’s absolutely the best thing that’s ever happened to me, I think I want six.
Lesley:
Six, six, six, six…Six months the colic lasted?
Guest:
Yes.
Lesley:
Poor little thing and poor you!
Guest:
He’d just scream and scream morning til night, nothing we did seemed to help.
Lesley:
You must have been beyond exhausted.
Guest:
I was traumatized, Lesley. No one warns you about this stuff.
Lesley:
They certainly don’t.
Guest:
And add to that the prolapse.
Lesley:
We have to take a break but when we come back we’ll be hearing from Priya, about the perils of postnatal incontinence, as she continues to suffer two years on.
Guest:
I was sat right where that umbrella is, just quietly breast feeding Rosie when a waiter started shouting at me to stop. He actually said to me ‘You’re disgusting’ and I said ‘Excuse me! It’s your attitude that’s disgusting, this is totally natural what I’m doing here’. Then he picked up my plate, my panini was still on it, I’d only had two bites, and…
