"What a way to spend your Christmas Day" people often remark to my Mother who over the years has answered what feels like a million and one questions about what it is like to be in hospital and giving birth to a child, which had decided to arrive early, on one of the most fun days of the year. A day in which you should be at home surrounded by your family and your loved ones, preparing the vegetables and opening the presents. Instead my poor Mother was in the delivery suite of our local NHS hospital panting and sweating as her little bundle of joy decided that today was the day, I had decided that I was going to make a statement and arrive on Christmas Day as a gift to the world.