A painful lecture on labour

Maureen Freely: Denis Walsh may be right that epidurals bring their own risks, but he shouldn't tell mothers about the moral value of pain

Not just pills and condoms

Anne Weyman: Messages on preventing pregnancy and disease have left better forms of contraception ignored

I didn’t love my baby

Experience: It's the one thing you can rely on, all the pregnancy books said. That indescribable rush of love when they put the baby on your belly for the first time.