Stop shaming women for having Caesareans

NHS hospitals are being warned against pushing women into having natural births over caesareans, after a spate of maternity safety scandals found the anti-c-section culture lead to a series of preventable baby deaths. One woman, Beth Nightingale, tells of the trauma she faced after being denied a caesarean by her maternity team, while Professor Marion Knight, a researcher in maternity safety at the University of Oxford, explains why faults within the NHS system has allowed these tragedies to happen.

 

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