We’re keen to hear from women in the UK who experienced birth trauma, and about their experience of care in pregnancy and ...
An inquiry into traumatic childbirths has called for an overhaul of the UK's maternity and postnatal care after finding poor ...
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 parliamentary inquiry into birth trauma is calling for a national plan to improve maternity care as it found good care is “the exception rather than the rule”. The report, published on ...
The inquiry found new mothers had been left on blood-soaked sheets for hours, berated by midwives, or in one case been dismissed as an "anxious mother" when her baby later died from complications that ...
As Sheryl crouched on all fours in a birthing pool in a Yorkshire hospital, she became convinced her baby boy was going to die. Between the crippling contractions that felt like a hot knife ...
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 women from black ethnic groups were four times more likely to die in ...
The UK’s maternity and postnatal care has been called into question, after a new inquiry detailed the ‘harrowing’ experiences of new mothers. The inquiry into childbirth trauma, which spoke ...
“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.
An inquiry into traumatic childbirths has called for an overhaul of the UK's maternity and postnatal care after finding poor care is "all-too-frequently tolerated as normal". The Birth Trauma ...