Category: Neurotic mothers

#FivexMore: ‘Black women are not listened to in labour, and our pain is not taken seriously’

Sep 16, 2020 | #BlackWomensHealthMatters, Neurotic mothers

Q&A with Tinuke Kayode, co-founder of the #FivexMore campaign, to mark the UK’s first...

‘I said I needed to push, but the midwife did not believe me’

Sep 10, 2019 | Neurotic mothers

Guest post by Keshet Buckle-Hodgson The most significant events I have experienced as a woman have...

Give Birth Like A Feminist: ‘women should feel like they’re in the driving seat’

Aug 21, 2019 | Books, Neurotic mothers

Q&A with Milli Hill, author of Give Birth Like a Feminist Published on 22 August, Give Birth...

‘The fight is as hard as the illness’: battling with postpartum thyroiditis

Apr 24, 2019 | Neurotic mothers

Guest post by Jenny Allen I am finding it gradually harder to write about my experience with...

‘Death means we believe you now’: dismissed as a neurotic mother

Mar 30, 2019 | Neurotic mothers

Guest post by Clare Norton. Content warning: baby loss and bereavement Ahead of Mothers’ Day,...

‘Minimising, infantilising and dismissive’: the language of childbirth

Mar 29, 2019 | Books, Neurotic mothers

Guest post by writer Rebecca Schiller, co-founder of Birthrights (the human rights in childbirth...

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