thank you and your Gran for sharing her stories xx (i bet your Gran's friend was happy to have gotten the vet instead!.

My Oma also lived in fear of her births. she had four between 1957-1962. and yeah, basically told to be flat on your back and ignored until pushing. she told me that no one explained the birth process to her and she thought that contractions were a sign of something dangerous so she told me that her first birth was particularly traumatic as she was sure that it was her baby and herself dying...and no one came to tell her otherwise