‘I had a miscarriage alone while my partner had to stay at home’: The continued maternity lockdown

Lucy Harris had been sitting alone in the cold patient room at Southmead hospital in Bristol for over an hour, waiting to hear about the fate of her unborn baby; there was a vase of fake flowers on a table nearby and a nondescript painting on the wall. It was the 32-year-old’s first pregnancy, and since getting a positive test on 13 September, she and partner Dave had started working on the nursery and been talking to her stomach daily. Read more