Theo Clarke called on the Government to do more to support women who experience traumatic births.
An MP has described the “terrifying” moment she believed she was going to die in childbirth as she called on the Government to do more to help women who experience traumatic births.
The MP was opening what she described as the first debate on birth trauma in the history of the Commons.At one point, while in recovery, she said she was lying next to her baby, who was screaming, and unable to pick her up she pressed a call button for help, only for the person to respond by saying “not my baby, not my problem”, before leaving.
The consequences of an obstetric anal sphincter injury, she said, can include urinary and faecal incontinence, chronic pain, sexual dysfunction and other mental and physical effects, adding: “It is very clear, we must do more to help women.Outlining her requests to the Government, she said: “It is so clear to me that so much more needs to be done to support women who experience traumatic births.
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