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Scotland’s historic Queen Mother’s maternity hospital closes after 46 years

Scotland said goodbye yesterday to its Queen Mother’s Hospital, one of Europe’s most modern when it opened 46 years ago.
On January 11, 1964 in Glasgow, Scotland, the Queen Mother’s Hospital opened its doors. A day later, the hospital’s first baby, James Wright, was born into the world to parents June and Nicholas. Yesterday, Wright visited [...]

Shocking C-Section delivery rate of a quarter of all babies in England

A quarter of babies delivered in England are by C-Section. This figure is double the World Health Organisation’s recommended rate and described as a, “serious cause for concern” by LibDem health spokesman Norman Lamb.
Almost 25% or around 155,000 babies last year were delivered via caesarean section despite efforts to reduce the number of surgical deliveries.
C-Section [...]

More than 90 percent of pregnant women not given choice of birth location

Pregnant women are still not offered choices according to a recent NCT report, but the Department of Health disputes the findings.
The National Childbirth Trust (NCT) recently released a report stating that only 4.2 percent of pregnant women were given all the available options for their upcoming birth.
In 2007, the government issued a report titled “Maternity [...]

The doula an increasingly popular choice for expectant mothers

The doula is becoming a more attractive option for expectant mothers as the UK faces an NHS midwife shortage.
While the midwife has long been the traditional source for women to turn to in the delivery room, the doula is becoming increasingly popular among expectant mothers in the U.K. With low supplies of NHS midwives and increasing [...]

Women in UK Faced With Serious Maternity Ward Problems

Last year over 3,500 women in the UJ were forced to give birth outside of maternity wards.
According to new figures that came out, almost 4,000 women in the UK gave birth in other places than maternity wards such as the toilet, other hospital departments, corridors, ambulances, and even midwives’ offices. This is a serious problem [...]