, but I was determined to have skin - to - skin; the doctor was a bit
concerned as I bled quite a lot, so I just lay with the baby on my chest, in the room where I gave
birth, and breastfed for a couple
of hours, both to give the breastfeeding a kickstart and to help with the bleeding — and fortunately, I had no further problems with bleeding
after that, for which I give my
son's latching most
of the credit!
Her TV movie This Little Life (2003)
concerned a couple's struggles
after the premature
birth of their
son; her first feature film was an adaptation
of Monica Ali's novel Brick...