Human reproduction is an area fraught with uncertainty and potential problems. I have always been in awe of the progress that has been made in treating infertility and managing high risk pregnancies.

Since I gave birth in the 1980s the technological advances have been amazing. In those days, I don’t even recall ever having an ultrasound. 

After the inconvenience of morning sickness had passed, I cruised through the rest of pregnancy in happy ignorance of everything that could go wrong. There was no internet to instil fear or anxiety. I was jubilant about being pregnant and that was that.

I consulted one book: A Child is Born by Lennart Nilsson, featuring wondrous intra-uterine photos of the developing fetus, taking the reader through conception to birth.