Everyone who has ever given birth will remember those first few crazy hours after, when you feel raw and new and scared and exhausted and vulnerable.

I remember getting into the shower just an hour or so after having delivered my first baby, still shivering and feeling both on a high and yet so totally exhausted at the same time that I couldn't even mange to hold the shower hose – until a nurse, who had helped the midwife at my delivery, came into the bathroom and helped me wash myself.

It is probably something that to her, is a daily occurance, but to me, as a healthy and fit adult, it is not often you find yourself in need of someone having to help you shower. It was such a small incident in what was such a big day, and yet I still remember it now, seven years later, just how how her act made me feel so safe and so cared for.

And so many of us have been here, I think, which explains why this touching image and the message it had recently went viral on social media.