Across
- 4. Cord connecting baby to mother (8)
- 5. Small knock or baby’s sign in the stomach (4)
- 6. Starts with P ends in male sheep (4)
- 7. Place for healing, “hit pals” confused inside (8)
- 8. Start of life’s journey (5)
- 11. Relating to motherhood (9)
- 12. Royal mum-to-be hides in take (anagram)
- 14. Hicks False pains confuse a born taxi's hicks? (7,5)
- 16. Start of life or idea? (10)
- 18. Little one, may cry or coo (4)
- 20. Surname sounds like ‘ball hard’ (7)
- 21. Increase or develop — progress in green shoots (4)
Down
- 1. Fool (5)
- 2. Sound beyond human ear detects baby (10)
- 3. Work in delivery? Time for effort (6)
- 9. Thumping rhythm found at the core of the heart (9)
- 10. Period of pregnancy’s duration (9)
- 13. Baby’s position backward or bottom first (6)
- 15. Baby’s first home, sound of a low boom (4)
- 17. Tightening sign before baby arrives (11)
- 19. Busy worker heard by the river (6)