We’re keen to hear from women in the UK who experienced birth trauma, and about their experience of care in pregnancy and ...
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 ...
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 ...
An inquiry into traumatic childbirths has called for an overhaul of the UK's maternity and postnatal care after finding poor ...
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 ...
Birth trauma caused by mistakes and failures was “frequently covered up by hospitals”, a landmark report has found. The first parliamentary inquiry into birth trauma heard “harrowing ...
The birth of a new baby should be a time of joy and celebration and yet, increasingly, women are finding it one of lasting trauma and distress. Talk to mothers today and you'll find that so many ...
Inquiry hears ‘harrowing’ testimonies and finds postcode lottery for quality of maternity care in England A health minister has apologised to women affected by birth trauma after a ...
“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.
When Rachel Coles gave birth in September 2021, she was in labour for an agonising 54 hours. She ended up losing three litres ...