Better Birth Blog
Information on hypnobirthing, pregnancy and birth
Dear Press & Media,
You are failing to report on our lack of midwives, you are failing to report on midwives working insanely long hours with no breaks and you are failing to report on the damage being caused by care providers not listening to women.
The UK Birth Trauma Inquiry
When the fish rots from the head down how can you fix things for the end user? How do we remind the entire service that birth is a normal physiological event and the more you try to make it work like a machine the more damage you will incur.
We Have A Birth Problem And It Is This…
Why are we teaching physiological birth when hospitals and birth centres are not actually offering normal physiological birth? There is a chasm occurring between antenatal classes and birth reality. When we change birth, birth changes.
How to Support Someone Who's Had a Traumatic Birth.
At 41 weeks and two sweeps later, her kind midwife booked her induction in.⠀
She told her it was the safest thing to do. Her body obviously just couldn’t go into labour, it would just be a nudge...
Abuse in labour.
Women should not be having to reach out or yearn for kind and generous care in labour and birth. It should come as standard.⠀
Why So Many Women Are Scared of Induction (and What to Do About It)
How has something that was only meant for situations when either mum or baby were unwell now become so normalised? How has something so regularly known to fail become the one thing that women are guaranteed they will be offered in their care?