Photo journal: Home-from-home childbirth

This little boy was conceived with the help of IVF but delivered without any medical intervention.

Denise Todd wanted a "normal birth" after all the intrusion involved in fertility treatment. Her son was delivered at the Mayday Birth Centre in Croydon, south London, where the midwife team specialises in making childbirth relaxed and intervention-free.

He is one of about 150 babies to be born at the centre since it opened its doors on 30 August 2006.