Is it time for a CHILDBIRTH REVOLUTION?
Jul 05, 2022
5 minutes
WORDS: GEORGINA FULLER, BESS BROWNING.
PHOTOS (MAIN POSED BY MODELS): ALAMY, GETTY.
*STUDY LED BY RESEARCHERS AT CITY UNIVERSITY LONDON
An investigation that found a catalogue of failings at a hospital trust has shone a light on a dangerous culture in maternity wards.
The Ockenden review, the result of a five-year independent inquiry into Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust, found that more than 200 babies and nine mothers had died needlessly as a result of catastrophic shortcomings.
The damning report said there was a ‘fixation on natural births’ with mothers reporting that they had to ‘beg’ for a caesarean, a procedure that medical staff discouraged in a bid to increase the rate of natural births.
This, Donna Ockenden claimed, resulted in babies ‘dying during birth or shortly after’.
Shockingly, this isn’t a
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