"I know."
Now the legal position, which nobody ever believes.
The woman who gives birth is the legal mother. At birth. Automatically.
That is the law and it is not a technicality and it does not depend on whose egg it was.
For Danny and Lorna to become Marnie's parents, they would have had to apply for a parental order — with my consent, in writing, no earlier than six weeks after the birth.
They had a solicitor. The application was going to be filed in the September.
It was never filed.
So I did not have to fight anybody for that child.
I was already her mother when he handed her back to me at about ten to five on the twenty-ninth of May, and he did not know that, and neither did Lorna, and neither did I until a solicitor called Nkem Osei explained it to me on the second of June.
