Medicine News | Medicine News and Information

postnatal care

11/02/2017 / By Frances Bloomfield

Starving, thirsty, and in pain, U.K. mothers traumatized by postnatal “care”

To say that the state of postnatal care in the U.K. is inadequate is an understatement. “Dismal” might be a more apt descriptor, as it perfectly encapsulates the treatment numerous mothers have receive. What was supposed to be a period of recuperation for these women turned into experiences so horrific that some mothers have been […]

05/15/2017 / By Frances Bloomfield

Shocking: Mothers are being denied painkillers and left to go hungry in hospitals

Postnatal care in the UK has reached an all-time low. British parenting website Mumsnet.com released the results of a postnatal care survey that assessed the conditions of over 1,200 women. These women, all of whom had given birth in the UK in the last three years, were asked about food, water, pain relief, and washing […]

1 of 1