Six months pregnant with her second child, Clio Howie logged onto the
internet to find out more about labour and delivery.
Until then, she had imagined her baby would arrive in the same predictable
and clinical manner as her first child Orion, now four – the same way as most
babies born in this country: in the labour ward at the local hospital.
‘It wasn’t even as if I had a particular problem or issue with that sort of
delivery,’ says Clio, a housewife who lives in Pembrokeshire with her partner
Lee, 28, a farmer.
