‘The Dutch approach to childbirth has proved relaxed and liberating,’ says a Times Online journalist. ‘Two years ago I gave birth in Amsterdam. Pelham, my son, was born in hospital at 4:25am. By 7am my husband, Paul, had got us back to our flat. I rang a nursing agency that I had chosen, and our state-subsidised maternity nurse was at our door within the hour….’

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