Jessica Corner from Rochester talks about the reaction she got when she raised concerns with midwives about the shape of her baby's head
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00:00 day five check, when the midwives come out to your home, I mentioned it then I said, really concerned.
00:06 You know, there's something not quite right here. He's got he's got an elongated head.
00:11 He's quite a bossing forehead. And so it's coming out quite a lot. And then as I said,
00:16 the back, it was it was almost quite like an oval shape, as opposed to round. And again,
00:22 they looked at me as if I was talking a different language, they did sort of laugh and they said,
00:28 babies have funny shaped heads. And I said, you know, and like I said, when when you laughed at
00:33 as as a you know, a new mum, it's not very nice. And anyone would think I, you know, it was like,
00:42 funny shaped head. What do you mean? And I just said, Oh, I'm just a bit concerned. It's not very
00:46 round. And then they said, Oh, you know, I'm just a bit concerned. It's not very round.