'A week or so ago, while the rest of the country was starting to hoard penne and Dettol, my wife went into labour.'
A week or so ago, while the rest of the country was starting to hoard penne and Dettol, my wife went into labour. It is our first child, and we were anxious even before we had to factor in a global plague.
The duty midwife looked at me, burdened with luggage, like a tourist, and laughed. She asked if we were moving in. Then she sent us home again, unimpressed by the rate and length of the contractions. Call that labour? she said. You don’t know you’re born.As we waited for the Uber, rather depressed, we noticed two little portacabins outside the Whittington Hospital, like the foreman’s office on a building site. Coronavirus testing booths.
The next evening we emerged blinking into north London with our daughter in her car seat, just in time for virus chaos. She has only met two of her godparents, one of whom was at a distance of more than two metres, outdoors, wearing a mask, which is not really the stuff of photobooks. Still, at least she is out and screaming. It must be terrible for the women who are still pregnant, or who are trying to have a baby, for whom the whole process must now be conducted in coronaworld. Hospitals are fraught at the best of times.
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