As a mum of nine children, Amanda Owen certainly knows a thing or two about childbirth and pregnancy. The Yorkshire Shepherdess, who delivered one child with only a dog for a birthing partner, has opened up about motherhood and why she finds giving birth so easy.
Writing in her new book, The Yorkshire Shepherdess, Amanda says: "Because I spend my time calving cows and lambing sheep, it seemed to me that having a baby was going to be the most natural thing in the world. "I am no earth mother, hippy type but I am a great believer in nature." In what may shock people, she goes on to claim "I just don't have contractions" when recalling her previous nine labours. "The only way I know that I am in labour is because I start feeling a bit off,
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