I was my daughter’s birth partner – I’ve never been so terrified

It’s incredibly hard to watch your child screaming in pain (Picture: Wendy Gregory)‘I’m just going to take a blood sample for testing,’ said the midwife. ‘We need to check for sepsis.’My daughter, Mia*, was several hours into labour with her first baby. I was her birth partner, and when Mia heard those words, she looked at me with terror written across her face.Mia’s heart rate and blood pressure were being monitored regularly, and, at