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Clara Doran is a GP who’s delivered babies and counselled new mums, but when she found herself terrified and crying on a maternity hospital ward at 5am, she realised that even with all her medical training, she wasn’t prepared for the birth of her child – and, more alarmingly, neither was the NHS

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ou always remember hearing your first birth story. While I’d been privy as a GP to snippets of tales from the labour ward, it was the story from one of my oldest school friends that imprinted itself on my brain. “I was alone for hours… Andrew had to go to get the midwife, but by the time she came back, it was too late for pain relief.”