It brings it all back home ...

Maria Moulton leaned on husband Jimmy’s lap and stared into her daughters’ doll house in the family sitting room as she gave birth to her third daughter, Maggie.

Aged 32, it was the Newfoundland-born and Cork-based woman’s second home birth - the couple’s first daughter, Lily, four, was born in CUMH.

The idea of home birth occurred to Maria at a yoga class during her first pregnancy. “We were midway through the pregnancy - talking to family and friends, we said we’d stick with the hospital and next time go for home birth,” says Maria, who published her book, Mammy Diaries, last year.