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 ...
“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.
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 ...
At least the baby’s healthy – that’s the main thing. If I heard that sometimes well-meant, sometimes passive-aggressive, always dismissive phrase once, I heard it a dozen times in the hours ...
For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails According to The Times, the report found “poor care is all frequently tolerated as normal ...
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 ...
The word “trauma” feels like an understatement. I was discharged from hospital a week later with no debrief, no explanation ...
Hundreds of women have contacted BBC News with their stories of experiencing trauma during childbirth - from their pain at not being believed, to being left bleeding and alone after their baby was ...