ERIN MCGREGOR

Dancer, two children I was 19 when I had my daughter, and hadn’t a clue what was ahead of me in the labour ward. My dad drove me in at 3am. My aunties had told me to book the epidural, I did ask at one stage if I had to book it and they laughed and said no. I was scared but I was naive. On my second that’s when the real nerves kicked in. When I was pregnant, every time I walked into the Coombe I would start shaking. I was quite traumatised from the first birth. The epidural only worked on one side. It was long and there were slight complications. In saying that, just after having Taylor, I remember feeling like superwoman. Like if I can do that, I can do anything. The thing is, remember it can’t last forever. It can’t go longer than 48 hours. I definitely found my second one easier. I felt that mentally, I’m older, I had been through trials and tribulations in my own personal life. On my first I was quite scared, I thought I was dying.