While it is an utter failing of our culture that childbirth is so closely equated with trauma, it is not without basis.

I am - finally - properly back to work this week. I have written a review of a book about maternity activism for AIMS (look out for it in...

For most of the last 2 years I’ve been thinking about, reading about, and interrogating the concepts of choice and control in relation to...

The pandemic really laid bare the role that 'woman centered care' plays in the NHS - the institution that most of us have our babies in....

At Edun Towers March began – as it did for many mothers – with an excited countdown towards the return to school. March 8th made my...

2020 is a shitstorm, so I’m going to offer you the chance to take a moment and rewind to 2010. It was a simpler time. Fewer pandemics,...

Right. Let’s be honest. If you’re due to have your baby any time before June, the last few weeks have been dreadful. In fact, if you’re due

I want to reassure you that while this is indeed the most extreme health crisis we're witnessed in our lifetimes, Covid does not trump your

It's not just new mothers of tiny babies, with the agonies of birth fresh in their minds. I'm equally likely to hear it from women who are w

What a wild ride, getting exactly what I wanted but with the exact opposite route I wanted to take.