The recent governmental review into maternity services in the UK has shone a glaring light on a distressing reality: many women and families are left with unresolved trauma after childbirth. As a ...
A new report found women giving birth in the UK are ‘treated as an inconvenience’ and risk injury and post-traumatic stress. As a result, the all-party parliamentary inquiry into birth trauma ...
In January, Southwark council established its maternity commission after a national report published last year revealed that ...
“Birth is very safe in the UK but there are clear disparities and areas for vast improvement,” says Dr Hannah Rayment-Jones, a midwife and research fellow at King’s College London.
Birth trauma: Over 1,000 women share testimony ... UK NHS Please use Chrome ... The Birth Trauma Inquiry has called for a national plan to improve maternity care, after speaking to 1,300 women and ...
Alice Ashburn's son Alfred was delivered using forceps after a five-day labour in 2019. When he was put on her chest, he was floppy and grey but it was only when he slid towards her neck that ...
The word “trauma” feels like an understatement. I was discharged from hospital a week later with no debrief, no explanation ...
Having a baby in the UK is a 'difficult and tricky experience' and is putting mothers off having further children, according to the Mail's talk show, The Reaction. Sarah Vine told the programme ...
The first ever parliamentary inquiry into birth trauma in the UK has found “shockingly poor quality” of care in a maternity system where overwork and understaffing are “endemic.”1 The inquiry by the ...
WOMEN IN IRELAND who’ve been affected by birth trauma say an inquiry is needed to reflect the scale and impact of the crisis. It follows a report published in the UK which found that good ...