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Te Koha

Abstract:

2pm, Friday 6th September 1991, a feeling from deep within, intuitively I knew my time of growing and carrying Te Koha within my body was drawing to an end. Instinct told me that I had felt my first contraction. Excitement welled within, I had been waiting to meet her for nine months. As my first experience with childbirth 15 years ago had been a 'far from joyous' occasion, I tentatively awaited the arriving of Te Koha. At that time a 16-year-old, I prayed that the act of birthing would be kinder to me at 31.

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