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Kay Sheldon retweeted
Read & weep.
Maternal deaths have risen dramatically over the past decade.
Another call to re-establish joined up, equitable care across the maternity pathway. #BackToTheFuture
obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.co…
Kay Sheldon retweeted
Decimation of postnatal support is much more of a risk to babies & mothers - including support for breastfeeding & picking up problems earlier to prevent re-admission to hospital.
Kay Sheldon retweeted
This is extremely irresponsible reporting. The benefits of breastfeeding for mother and baby are well known. Your focus should be on why women are not getting the close monitoring and postpartum and feeding support when they need it most.
Kay Sheldon retweeted
Priorities... We're hearing much discussion about what the priorities should be for the new shiny English maternity and neonatal service 10 year improvement plan. But much of it is the same old same old. What's your take? Here's ours: aims.org.uk/campaigning/item…
Read & weep.
Maternal deaths have risen dramatically over the past decade.
Another call to re-establish joined up, equitable care across the maternity pathway. #BackToTheFuture
obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.co…
Kay Sheldon retweeted
Women’s right to have a midwife oversee their baby’s birth is protected in Scotland as 'shocking denial' of rights surges in England talkingupscotlandtwo.com/202…
Kay Sheldon retweeted
'Mums and babies are dying now, why can't we just get on and do it?'
@SophyRidgeSky quizzes health minister Karin Smyth on the delays to the plan to overhaul maternity care and when a maternity commissioner will be appointed.
Watch her response below ⬇️
Kay Sheldon retweeted
Spending on caesareans in England has reached an eye-watering £2billion+
Robust research shows no additional benefit after a 20% rate. England is at 45% 🤯
If England reduced caesareans to around 20%, it would free up around £1billion to fund high quality ante & post natal care
Kay Sheldon retweeted
Julia Sanders & Bill Kirkup on ‘normal birth ideology’ From 2:46:55
Thinking back to 2015 when this campaign against ‘normal birth ideology’ started
There was broad agreement on the way forward. What was it all for? The harm caused has been immense 😔
bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0033p…
Kay Sheldon retweeted
Kirkup this morning:
“wrong to call it an ideology”
“polarises” and “off putting”
“a vaginal birth with minimal intervention is absolutely the ideal. No doubt at all about that.”
How did these messages about ‘normal birth’ get so dangerously mangled? 😔
Kay Sheldon retweeted
Since the campaign against a ‘normal birth ideology’ began over a decade ago, maternity services have become more unsafe due to the toxic culture, escalating pressures & soaring medical interventions.
Desperately sad & so avoidable.
Kay Sheldon retweeted
More safety concerns in maternity care ☹️
Too few obstetricians to keep up with skyrocketing (& largely unnecessary) caesareans.
Time to promote vaginal birth & develop midwife-led care once again: evidence-based, safer & more equitable.
Who knew? 🤔😠
mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/ma…
Kay Sheldon retweeted
Also, England now spends an eye-watering £2billion+ on caesareans 🤯
Caesarean rates are at 45% - over double the rate that research shows no further benefit to women & babies.
Imagine what could be done for ante & post natal care with the extra £1billion!!
Kay Sheldon retweeted
£1.88 billion spent on caesareans.
Research shows no benefit over 20%.
England has skyrocketed to 45% 🤯
Think how much more maternity services could do in ante & post natal if the rate was halved:
Kay Sheldon retweeted
No. It’s time to end the toxicity which has - & continues to cost - lives over the past decade.
We have to allow maternity services to improve once again - which was happening until this dangerous ‘normal birth ideology’ campaign started in 2015
The stats are startling & clear:
Kay Sheldon retweeted
Repeated themes in the Amos report:
understaffing, low morale, burn out, bullying, soaring caesareans, worsening outcomes, racism, poor facilities.
Since 2015, data shows maternity services have deteriorated into a dangerous mess.
Normal birth ‘ideology’ is not the issue.
NEW: A major national review into maternity services heard “repeated” evidence of “normal birth ideology” despite concluding it was not “widespread” – partly because it relied on AI evidence summaries – a former expert adviser has warned hsj.co.uk/patient-safety/amo…
Kay Sheldon retweeted
Caesareans have doubled yet baby & maternal deaths & stillbirths have all increased in Devon since 2015.
Services can’t cope: over-stretched, blame-ridden & short staffed.
The legacy of Jeremy Hunt & co. 😡
Five babies born in ambulances and A&E amid NHS maternity ward scandal mirror.co.uk/news/health/dev…
Kay Sheldon retweeted
Soaring medical interventions yet birth injuries are at a record level 😢
No, ‘normal birth ideology’ is not the problem 😡 @jeremy_hunt
Life-changing child birth injuries at record levels in UK - scale of maternity ward failures laid bare mirror.co.uk/news/politics/m…
Kay Sheldon retweeted
Clinicians are starting to speak out about the skyrocketing caesareans, worse safety outcomes & the culture of fear in maternity services 🙏
Until 2015, safety outcomes were improving 😢
We have to reverse the toxicity of the last 10+ years. Lives depend on it.
