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Good positions to make love in and good positions to birth the baby also have some things in common. For example, the best way for most women to give birth is on their hands and knees, doggy style. Now it is difficult to adopt this position without immediately being transported back to some dubious session with the lights out. Mid-labour with my first baby, when the midwife came in to find me on my hands and knees being massaged by my birth buddy Lisa, I felt she’d opened the door on some porno movie. ‘I think she thinks we’re some sort of lesbian double act,’ I whispered, grabbing the gas and air back off my so-called friend who was sucking away on it. The disapproving midwife left the room, and we both fell about laughing.

For the lazy among you, unwilling to try new positions and therefore get yourself in the mood to try any position that feels comfortable on the big day, may I offer you the wise words of the obstetrician Professor Roberto Caldeyro Barcia: ‘The only position worse than lying on your back for birth is hanging by your heels from a chandelier.’¹ And there’s another one for you to try.