CW Birth trauma
My first child would be dead if I didn't have access to the medical science of a c-section. I was so swept up in the "natural birth movement" that I felt guilty for having a c-section.
Leeds is now the subject of a major inquiry into maternity. I previously reported on its decade long pursuit of 'normal birth' ideology that saw it have the lowest number of caesareans while stillbirths and baby deaths soared to the worst nationally www.thetimes.com/article/f3af...
In the period that Leeds maternity unit had the lowest number of caesareans, its rate of stillbirths and newborn deaths became the worst nationally
