Mother's Day 2021: We became mothers during the pandemic
(Madeleine Fogg ) As well as being an emotional support, partners also provide essential advocacy for mothers, helping make sure their wishes are respected and that they are getting the right assistance when they may not be able to speak for themselves. Florence Sevensma found the prospect of not having her partner Mark present particularly scary. “It was really hard on me and, being a black mother, I had a lot of anxieties around the ‘five times more’ stats,” the 29-year-old says, referring to figures that show black women in the UK are more than five times more likely to die in pre...