So this was information the hospital clinic had given you?

Mother’It was off the Internet, information from the British Liver Foundation about obstetric cholestasis.

But they’d printed it off?

Mother’But they’d printed it off for me from the hospital. So by the time I got home…

Father’Well, no, you were, the worst thing was you were phoning me from a bus stop.

Mother’I rang you at work from the bus stop completely in pieces, and…

Father’And the bus of course was really late [laughs].

Mother’And the bus was really late. It was just one of these awful traumatic kind of ghastly things. So I eventually got home, and by then I was completely in, I was really distraught. And everywhere was closed by then. I couldn’t phone the GP, I couldn’t phone the hospital. But in my maternity book from the hospital I had the number for the maternity suite, and of course I was thirty seven weeks pregnant by then so, which is why I’d got the delivery, the delivery suites number. And I rang the delivery suite. And they were just brilliant. She was really, the nurse or midwife that I spoke to was just really calming, really upset for me that, about what had happened ,and incredibly helpful. And she asked me to read the results out that I’d been given from the bile acid tests and said, “Well, look, that sounds absolutely…

Father’Didn’t she phone the doctor first?

Mother’No, no, she said that first of all. She said, “Oh I’m, that doesn’t sound, that’s really not that much. Yes, it is a little bit but it’s really not that much, it’s still quite low. I honestly don’t think, I honestly think you’ll find – if you’re worried, you know, if you feel the baby, you don’t seem to be feeling the baby moving, then you’re welcome to come straight in, just come straight in. But I’m going to, give me your number, I’ll speak to the doctor and check and see what they say, you know. I’ve got all your records here.” And so basically they went off, spoke to the doctor and then they phoned me back at home and said, “Look, it’s really all right, don’t worry about it. It’ll be, you know, it sounds absolutely fine. It’s quite low, you know. Were here immediately if you start being worried or if you just want reassurance, come in and well monitor.” And so she was really – and the other thing, oh, that was the other thing, wasn’t it? It was a bank holiday.

Father’Mm.

Mother’So it was the day before the Easter bank holiday, wasn’t it? Was it Easter?

Father’Yeah.

Mother’The long bank holiday. So like nothing, no one was around, and I had the whole weekend before they’d then made an appointment for me to go back to the clinic where I’d been tested for the cholestasis the following Tuesday, but after a whole, which was the worst bank holiday in our lives, wasn’t it? [both laugh].

Mother’So then when I went, so then I had to go in for tests every day

Father’No, they said you had to, didn’t they make you an appointment for the induction?

Mother’No, no, no, I did – up until – no, no, no, that was at, from the Monday to the Thursday I had to go back every day for tests. They monitored the baby for movements, and his heart and movements. And they didn’t do scans every time, they just monitored his heart and movement, and took blood samples every time. And then on the Thursday which was basically a week after they’d discovered the cholestasis, they decided that they would induce him on the Saturday, but as it happened I went into labour on the Thursday, so I had him two weeks early. But I’d known then that he would be induced because they said that, they, it was that awful, they were saying they would rather wait for a – that was, you’re right, that was the worst thing was that they said, “Oh, well, well wait till thirty eight weeks and then well induce him at thirty eighty weeks,” and it was like, ‘Why another week? What difference is a week going to make? Hes fine now, let me just have him, and hes fine.” But he was obviously then ready a week later and so out he came.