Sophie Smith

And then the labor just stopped.

And so they moved me back to antenatal at that stage and just said, look, we just got to wait.

But...

At that stage, it was 21 and a half weeks.

And back in 2006, babies born before 24 weeks were not... Viable.

Not viable.

Yes.

Exactly.

And so we were told it's very unlikely that your body is going to hold on to your other two babies for another two and a half weeks.

but it's just a wait, we just wait and see.

And then I don't think anyone thought we would make it to 24 weeks.

And then every day that passed, Ash and I sort of, you know, our hopes grew.

I was very high risk of getting an infection and they told me if I had any sign of infection, they would just induce me because that would be dangerous to my life.

And so the next two and a half weeks, I just lay...

in bedrest, on bedrest in hospital.

And I did not want to move.

I remember, you know, even that I had to get up to go to the loo and I was asking them, please, can't you just give me a catheter or something?

I don't want to get up to go to the loo.

And they said, no, that's an infection risk.

We can't do that.