The birth trauma scandal is not about one bad apple, one bad culture or one bad area – it’s about the mess of austerity
The Guardian -

When I gave birth in the 00s, things were not perfect by any stretch, but unlike now, they were not broken absolutely everywhere It’s a convention as old as our species (I’m guessing) that if you have a hideous experience giving birth, you don’t tell younger women about it in case it puts them off. Around this lacuna where the normal exchange of information should be, a number of wrong assumptions cluster, unchallenged: that all births are terrible, and therefore equally terrible; that something...

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