Good old Kirstie Allsopp. She says labelling women who have caesareans as "too posh to push" is "grossly unfair". Quite right. Anyone familiar with learning disabilities knows many of them, particularly those involving gross and fine motor skills, seem linked to traumatic birth.

Most of the brain is protected by the crown of the skull during birth, but if contractions start to fade once a baby is in the birth canal, the cerebellum becomes vulnerable. Instead of being sceptical about the learning disabilities a damaged cerebellum may cause – including dyslexia, dyscalculia, dysgraphia, dyspraxia, nonverbal learning disability – we should accept that this is an area that requires more research. Yet, the existence of these learning difficulties is sometimes questioned, while at the same time women are ridiculed for rejecting natural birth. Pretty abject, really.