These antenatal classes remind me of my Alcoholics Anonymous meetings

My first message to the ‘NCT girls’ WhatsApp group concerned constipation

Tue, Oct 31, 2017, 13:55

Amy Liptrot

File photograph – istock.

File photograph – istock.

Medium pregnant with my first child and turning up nervously on a Tuesday evening to my first antenatal class, I was reminded of something by the circle of chairs, the sudden intimacy with strangers and the Jammie Dodgers.

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