Every mother knows how important proper healthcare is, and my own Mum was one of the first to sign up to be a ‘Mother for Other Mothers’. Mums can make a difference, but we can all play our part. Last week Save the Children launched a new report, Missing Midwives alongside a call to action — we want to see a world where no mother gives birth alone.
This Saturday I got my first taste of spruiking. I always have books to sign and sell after giving a talk, but this was different; the real hard-core ‘roll up, roll up ladies pll-llease… I have cabbages, I have cherries, I have a new biography as featured on Women’s Hour…’ in the front of a Waterstones shop in Bury St Edmunds.
So, it’s Mother’s Day this Sunday and I have been trying to think a bit more about what to actually get for my mum rather than leaving it to the last minute and buying the last bunch of weary looking flowers I can lay my hands on at the petrol station before I arrive at home for lunch.
