It was so good recently to watch "Yorkshire Midwives on Call" BBC. For once a TV programme showing what birth can be like i.e. undramatic; part of the normal process of family life which takes place in the familiar comfort of the womans own home. It was such a...
As a veteran NCT teacher I am saddened by their announcement that they are no longer going to promote “natural childbirth” in their classes”. To me, it's a bit like the Pope renouncing Catholicism. It's in my opinion an overreaction to the Ockenden Report into the...
The recent Ockenden report was shocking and alarming and the findings misrepresented by some columnists which prompted me to write to several newspapers and woman's hour. Below is what the Daily Mail recently published. "WHILE the Ockenden report into the failings of...