The trauma ward
Each year thousands of women suffer the nightmare of a traumatic birth. I was one of them.
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Donna Ockenden: “Mothers were blamed for their own deaths”
The senior midwife on the UK’s failing maternity services.
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Don’t invite us to bring our babies to work, give us proper maternity leave
Getting back to the office as quickly as possible after giving birth shouldn’t be normalised.
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“She has given us the greatest gift”: The British families trying to help their surrogates in Ukraine
Hundreds of UK children were born via Ukrainian surrogates. Now, many of their parents are desperate to support the women…
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My grandmother, the quiet radical
How has motherhood evolved over the past 60 years? My gran’s experience – as recorded in her witty book on…
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The crisis in Covid vaccine messaging is leaving pregnant women unprotected from Omicron
Vaccines don’t increase the risk of miscarriage, preterm birth or stillbirth – they reduce them, by protecting women from Covid-19.
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It’s absurd to blame climate anxiety for falling birth rates
Millennials and Gen-Z don’t need “perspective” on climate change – they need an economy less hostile to young families.
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We’re still missing the point on the Covid vaccine and pregnancy
The fact unvaccinated pregnant women make up almost a sixth of the most critically ill Covid patients in hospitals suggests…
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The death of a baby born in a prison cell exposes England’s warped justice system
A pregnant inmate of HMP Bronzefield was “failed”, a report finds. For women in prisons, it is a grimly familiar…
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