10 reasons why having a baby in a Brazilian hospital is different to having a baby in an English one.

3. The mobile phones. In York, mobiles were banned in the maternity unit and I had to surreptitiously slip off to the loos to text and call a few people after Nelson was born. Not in Brazil. All doctors had their phones on and I had two in my pocket the whole time. Calls were going off every other minute and nobody batted an eyelid.