Raising your voice

Staff who came in saw my headscarf and kept asking ‘Do you speak English?’ and do you understand what I am saying? If they made an effort to glance at my notes, they would have seen that I didn’t need a translator.

Confidence to speak up

“With my first pregnancy, I was over 40 weeks pregnant. The consultant sat with me in the room and said that my baby could die

I’m no longer invisible

“My first baby was born by c-section after a failed Induction of labour. I felt like I didn’t have a choice about the birth as