“It was as if I’d said that I’d just abandoned my son on the side of the road! “My labour was exhausting and went on for days,” Yennhi says, who delivered naturally and unmedicated. Yennhi explains: “James would have primary custody, with me taking Asher eight days a month over the weekends. I only lost one friend, who was a single mum herself and was having a hard time. “People said that I was a selfish, deadbeat mum, that I’d simply abandoned Asher,” she says.

Source: The Times March 23, 2026 17:15 UTC