Better Birth Blog

Information on hypnobirthing, pregnancy and birth

The UK Birth Trauma Inquiry
Melanie Bearne Melanie Bearne

The UK Birth Trauma Inquiry

When the fish rots from the head down how can you fix things for the end user? How do we remind the entire service that birth is a normal physiological event and the more you try to make it work like a machine the more damage you will incur.

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We Have A Birth Problem And It Is This…
Melanie Bearne Melanie Bearne

We Have A Birth Problem And It Is This…

Why are we teaching physiological birth when hospitals and birth centres are not actually offering normal physiological birth? There is a chasm occurring between antenatal classes and birth reality. When we change birth, birth changes.

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Listening To Traumatic Birth Stories
Melanie Bearne Melanie Bearne

Listening To Traumatic Birth Stories

At 41 weeks and two sweeps later, her kind midwife booked her induction in.⠀

She told her it was the safest thing to do. Her body obviously just couldn’t go into labour, it would just be a nudge...

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Abuse in labour.
Melanie Bearne Melanie Bearne

Abuse in labour.

Women should not be having to reach out or yearn for kind and generous care in labour and birth. It should come as standard.⠀

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The fear of induction is growing.
Melanie Bearne Melanie Bearne

The fear of induction is growing.

How has something that was only meant for situations when either mum or baby were unwell now become so normalised? How has something so regularly known to fail become the one thing that women are guaranteed they will be offered in their care?

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