Pandemic or no pandemic, a new life was on the way
Living next door to the hospital used to be comforting. In fact, one of the reasons we were planning to have a beautiful, transcendent home birth was because we knew how easily we would be able to abandon those silly ideas and get swiftly medicalised. But as the pandemic worsened, our feelings about the hospital changed.
By mid-morning, the cocktail bar atmosphere had long given way to science fiction: my wife —lit by the cool blue torchlight of the midwives' iPhones, floating in a pool of water the colour of a shark attack — was screaming and biting the walls. Who was the shark and who the victim, it was difficult to say. Our daughter was born at 11.16am. Although, in truth, her head had come out at 11.11am and so she’d spent a good five minutes with her neck being strangled by the birth canal.
The paramedics arrived and helped my wife and newborn daughter into the back of the ambulance. They explained to me that, because of Covid, I would not be allowed to come with them and, in fact, it was possible I would not be able to enter the hospital at all. Then they shut the doors and drove off.Watching them recede from view, blue lights flashing, I became aware that my brain was speaking to me with two contradictory yet simultaneous voices.
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