Early Bird

Introducing Matilda Evelyn Cotton, who made her grand entrance at 8.42am, 25th April 2018, weighing 1 lb 14 oz at 26 weeks’ gestation. On 14th April, I was rushed into hospital having contractions five mins apart and when my waters broke I feared she would be too premature to make it. Somehow, she managed to stay in utero for another eleven days – albeit the scariest eleven days of my life – and surprised us all by coming out eyes wide open and fully alert. John and I are feeling a mixture of sheer elation, delirium through lack of sleep and befuddlement that any daughter of two chronically late people could be early for anything! Here’s to the beginning of a new adventure.