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Childbirth

July 2024

  • A pregnant woman and a midwife, seen from the shoulders down, stand facing each other

    From contaminated blood to birth trauma, how female NHS patients’ concerns are ignored

    England’s patient safety commissioner says NHS patients raising concerns are dismissed as ‘difficult women’

June 2024

  • Keir Starmer

    Weekend
    Keir Starmer’s most personal interview yet, the woman who gave birth to her granddaughter, and why do we have the dreams we do?– podcast

  • ‘Wonder and gratitude’: Kristi Schmidt with her granddaughter Ekko and daughter Heidi in California.

    Experience
    Experience: I gave birth to my granddaughter

  • Happy smiling mother holding her newborn baby after being born in a bath

    Water births do not increase risk of complications, study finds

  • Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

    How did the Greens get it so wrong on ‘natural’ birth?

    Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

  • ‘You can’t manifest the birth you want’: the reality behind the ‘natural birth’ obsession

  • Coping with the loss and burial of babies

  • Women paying up to £8,000 for private midwives amid frustration at NHS care

May 2024

  • Jessica Santos speaking to the media

    ‘I felt guilty’: women reveal harrowing details to groundbreaking NSW birth trauma inquiry

  • A woman kneeling on the grass by a small white marble grave for Zoe Karen Gentle

    ‘They want the truth’: Meet the woman who finds the graves of stillborn babies

  • An older couple stand next to a baby memorial at a church

    ‘You don’t forget as a mother’: the British parents finally reunited with their stillborn babies

  • A newborn baby in a woman's hands

    What happens when a baby is stillborn in England and Wales?

  • Our maternity services need radical change. Women must reclaim birth

  • The Eva Wiseman column
    Pillows, playlists and a gentle push… My birth plan was a joke

    Eva Wiseman

  • The Week in Patriarchy
    Louisiana descends into dystopia with historic law on abortion pills

    Arwa Mahdawi

  • Why does postnatal care only last a few weeks? New data shows it should be years

    Devi Sridhar

  • Epidural in labour can reduce risk of serious complications by 35%, study finds

  • Maternity services are failing mothers and babies, and it’s not just down to austerity

  • UK birth-trauma inquiry delivered gritty truths, but change will be hard

  • The Guardian view on maternity care failures: birth trauma can and should be reduced

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