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Birth trauma: How maternity care is failing women

Plus: The damaging myth of the 'perfect mother' + The Lead in conversation: "Everyone in society has a part to play in raising children"

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Alex Bollen
Mar 20, 2025
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Maternity care is increasingly unsafe. As well as the risk of physical trauma, mothers are being belittled, ignored and pressured at every turn. Alex Bollen explores how women are being set up to feel like failures…

It has been almost two decades since I had my first baby, but nothing has changed…

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Alex Bollen
Researcher and author of 'Motherdom: Breaking Free from Bad Science and Good Mother Myths' published in 2025 by Verso.
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