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Inspiring Stories
We would like to thank all the mothers that have taken time out to share these valuable experiences of their maternity care with us.
We hope that reading these accounts will inspire people to be mindful of all mothers and raise awareness of the inequalities within maternity care.
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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