Sophie Ellis-Bextor

He immediately got put in an incubator and I was taken to recovery myself.

And so I was given this photo because I needed to try and help my milk to come in if that's what I wanted to do, which I did.

And so they encouraged me to have photographs of my baby to help me.

get all the hormones doing what they needed to do so that I could feed him and get the milk ready for him.

And as it happens, if they're born before 34 weeks, there's no sucking reflex.

Right.

So the milk would be fed to him in the tube.

But it was something I could do that the doctors couldn't provide.

So I felt very focused on that role and I gave lots of time to it.

So at the time, that Polaroid wasn't just a picture.

It was also...

a way to bond and connect with my new baby when I couldn't physically be in the room with him and I couldn't hold him.

So I think it probably took on extra, yeah, extra weight as a photo.

Because, you know, you were young still.

Well, I think some of it, I look back and Richard and I still find it quite funny, really, because we started dating and we realised we were having a baby when we'd only been going out for six weeks.

And then because Sonny was born early, we'd actually only been going out for eight months when he was born.

Yeah.

So we kind of defied some of the usual chronology.

But...

It's funny, there was so much drama going on.