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The ‘Curse of Eve’ has its grip on all the Eves of the modern world. We are told that giving birth has to be painful. Or at least that is what we believe because we were told by our mother, aunt, friend, we saw it on television, the midwife and the obstetrician talk about it – so who are we to even dare thinking it might be different for any of us?

For all you expectant mothers out there, a one day Birthwise ante natal and parenting course will be held once a month every month over the coming year.

Mary Sammon and Frances Burke, who are two experienced midwives, breast-feeding specialists and proud mothers themselves, are offering pregnant women and their families information on pregnancy, labour and life after delivery in a new class called New Beginnings.

Well if the stories in the news about St Lukes’s maternity haven’t frightened every woman in the county out of having any more babies, it is a miracle.

Fine Gael Longford/Westmeath Senator Nicky McFadden has warned of the danger of cutting maternity services at Portiuncula Hospital and the threat it would pose to the lives of expectant mothers and their unborn babies.