Ten years ago, I gave birth to my first child about 20 weeks too early and the baby couldn’t survive. I had a normal pregnancy for the initial months – I was out and about (I can recall clocking in more than 8,000 steps at Gitex), I had an extreme sensitivity to the smell of pizza and all seemed fine during check-ups. In the fifth month of pregnancy, I suddenly began experiencing what I later learnt were contractions.