"I was told they didn’t offer C-sections."

Amid recent maternity scandals in the UK, women are speaking out about not being listened to when having a baby — in some cases with terrible consequences. But who is to blame, incompassionate staff or poor standardised practices forced upon them that favour numbers on a spreadsheet over real physical needs? Sirin Kale investigates.

Sharon Bott

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The dangerous obsession with ‘natural births’