As she held her tiny new baby boy, Jasper, Greta Dench’s eyes welled up with tears of joy.
She smothered his soft skin and baby hair with kisses, posed for photos with her husband, Simon, and messaged everyone the happy news. Anyone would think Greta was a first-time mum, but she’d actually been here five times before.
“The midwife told me she couldn’t believe how much I loved this baby,” Greta tells New Idea, incredulous.
“She said with him being my fifth and the same sex as my others, she was surprised. She didn’t see that a lot.”
Over the next six years, Greta and Simon went on to have another three bubs, bringing their brood to an impressive eight – Jeremiah, 16, Felix, 14, Ezra, 12, Hugo, 10, Jasper,…