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Last Updated: Thursday, 14 December 2006, 13:29 GMT
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Audio slideshow: Birth in the 1940s
The National Childbirth Trust, Europe's largest parents' charity, has been celebrating its 50th anniversary this year.

Margaret and Glyn Thomas, now in their 80s, started a family when childbirth was a very different experience for mothers and fathers.

Here they remember the snowy day in February 1947 when their daughter Bronwen was born.

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Audio slideshow produced by Alison Trowsdale, Hanna White and Christine Jeavans. Pictures by Phil Coomes. Family photos, courtesy Margaret and Glyn Thomas

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CHANGING CHILDBIRTH

Margaret Thomas with first baby daughter Bronwen Pushing 50
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