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Yesterday's extract of Friday's Child in the Daily Mail caused a huge response, which still stuns me this morning.

To everyone who has contacted me: Thank you. I am replying as fast as I can!

The extract was from my book Friday's Child which is the story of what happened back then. Today …

Extracted

This morning I read the extract of Friday's Child, in the Daily Mail . It's strange, reading my words in such a condensed form. They are my words, and it is my story, but only such a small part of it.

It is humbling to read the comments people have left under the story, and so many. Really …

Mrs Nitu Bajekal MBBS, MD (Obs & Gynae), MRCOG (UK)

Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist, Barnet Hospital, London UK

Training Programme Director, NTE London Deanery (Obs and Gynae)

Mrs Nitu Bajekal’s initial training as a medical student and postgraduate medical training was in Jipmer, Pondicherry and at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences. She came to the UK for higher training …

Misconception that matters

… jumped out at me. It was the reference to Alex's post- puerperal fever after discharge from hospital first time. How lucky she was that it only took two doses of antibiotics to shift it, and how wrong she was to assume that the lack of infection second time around was because she was far from a maternity ward.

Yes you can acquire an infection in hospital - MRSA, C diff etc - but …

Childbed fever: the facts

… aware of the symptoms could save your life

It is not a disease of the past

It is not a hospital acquired infection (HAI) or a 'superbug'

It is not caused by poor hygiene

Even a healthy immune system will not beat it

Delivering naturally and easily, without any complications does not eliminate the risk

Being young and healthy doesn't make you 'safe'

If you have a home …

NICE delivery?

… and the historical and natural risks are still as present as ever they were.

While an extended hospital stay is not on anybody's wish list or birth plan, there is merit of staying in for days, rather than hours - as used to be the case. How better to pick up on the warning signs of a complication such as infection than by regular observations by a midwife?

But on that subject, all too …

Why, Daddy?

… him, even if his curiousity isn't satisfied.

One day he's going to ask about before she went to hospital, and he's going to be so angry.

'There's nothing we can do to bring Mummy back, Harry, but that doesn't mean we have to like it.'

'What's Jessica's trust, Daddy?'

'It's Daddy's work - trying to stop other Mummy's dying like yours did.'

'What is child fever, anyway?'

'Childbed …

Inventive Care Unit

I woke this morning to find myself in hospital. A nurse was standing beside my bed.

"You're very, very ill."

Oh no, not again. "Can you make me better?"

"Yes, this is to take the splinter out of your nose; this is an injection to fill your arm with slime; just a little bit more. Now I need to listen to your heart with my this." …

An Inspector Calls

I had a visit from the VAT Inspector this morning. I got a bit behind with my VAT Returns and they wanted to make sure I wasn't up to no good.

Business has been slow to non existant for the past few years, so it didn't take long and we soon started to talk about what I was doing now. I showed …

Maternity resources

… the recommended level of care if she is spread amongst too many mothers. That is the case in hospital and within the community.

CEMACH recommends* that 'routine observations of pulse, BP, temperature, respiratory rate, and lochia should be made in all recently delivered women for several days postpartum' and yet most women are turfed out of hospital within a few hours, and often receive …