Thank you to ... my midwife, for reassuring a pregnant dad

In this series writers celebrate a person who changed their lives. Fred McConnell thanks Jo Hall for her care and common sense, making no fuss or fanfare

To Jo,

Thank you for guiding me through a strange and at times hostile land. I don’t know if that is part of a community midwife’s official job description, but that’s what it felt like to me, a man and queer person entering the antenatal care system. Being pregnant for the first time is daunting for anyone. Being pregnant for the first time and trans male was terrifying. We were both stepping into the unknown but you never made that – made me – feel like a problem.

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