Around one in three women report their birth experience as traumatic. And it’s not always related to medical emergencies.
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Around one in three women experience traumatic childbirth and one in 25 women develop post-traumatic stress disorder as a result – here’s what changes need to be made.
Many women want to see the same one or two midwives throughout, and want to chose where they give birth. And when the time comes, they want a vaginal birth, with less intervention.
One in 25 women who give birth develop postnatal PTSD. I am one of them.
Midwives get blamed but contradictions in policy sometimes tie their hands.
The harsher verdicts imposed on two child mothers shows why the UK’s law of infanticide remains so important, more than a century after it was introduced
Pregnancy changes the structure and function of virtually every organ system of the body. That includes some big changes to the gut.
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Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of York
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Professor of Anthropology and Childhood, The Open University
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Professor of Maternal and Child Health, City St George's, University of London
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Clinical Academic Obstetrician, UNSW
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Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of York
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Associate Professor of Mental Health & Wellbeing, Anglia Ruskin University
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Associate Professor and Clinical Academic Gastroenterologist, Western Sydney University
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Professor of Midwifery, Associate Dean Research and HDR, Midwifery Discipline Leader, Western Sydney University
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Research Fellow University of Notre Dame Australia; Adjunct Fellow (National Institute of Complementary Medicine), Western Sydney University, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Professor of Sociology, University of York
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Associate Professor of Midwifery, Western Sydney University
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Midwifery Lecturer, CQUniversity Australia