Meet the midwife
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My daughter in her gap year went to Kolkata to help in a neurosurgery unit. She stayed in an international hostel. On her first morning she was joined at breakfast by a lady who after some discussion turned out to be the first person who ever touched my daughter- the midwife who attended her birth 18 years before. They had never met in the interim.
It does seem very surprising but the English midwife's husband was a geriatrician who had worked in the hospital in England where my daughter was born and was back in Kolkata visiting relatives.
Date submitted:Fri, 08 Jan 2016 19:41:49 +0000Coincidence ID:8351
