My two babies have one thing in common that they don't share with me.
In the UK, a mighty 9.5% of babies have three or more older siblings according to research from Eurostat.
When James and Dana* got engaged in 2004, they thought they would do the "stereotypical, you get married, you buy a house, you have a baby, have two cars in the driveway" thing, Dana said.
Thick MSAF babies had three cases of maternal hypertension, 3 cases of fetal heart rate abnormality (FHRT), two cases of breech delivery, and one case each of cephalopelvic disproportion, and intrauterine growth retardation.
The baby had two I.V.s and five wires connected to her, four on her chest, one on her ankle.
"Ideally," as Guy put it, you need to be "willing to accept that the baby has two parents, who are the two moms — and then there's you".
The baby had two healthy elder twin-brothers.
Medical reasons were the most common - nine out of 10 women with a breech baby had one, and 71% of women who had previously had a Caesarean opted to have another.
If my baby has nine months to develop and grow strong, then so do I.
And when correct diagnosis was finally established, it was too late to use medicinal treatment: an 18-month-old baby had one of her kidneys removed.
"The baby will have two moms which I'm ok with", Reba said.
