Expectancy NHS & Independent Midwives event in London 11th July 2026 That's me at the back top of stairs. :) A big thank you to Denise Tiran the innovative pioneering founder of Expectancy for inviting me. A fantastic day, i met so many wonderful midwives that came from all over UK I gave a talk on birth trauma and womens maternal stress. Both subjects are not inculded in NHS training and they certainly need to be taught as basic training. Because women and newborns dese

How Many Maternity Reviews Do We Need Before Women Are Finally Heard? The publication of Donna Ockenden's latest review into maternity services at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust is both horrific, devastating and deeply familiar. It reveals what thousands of families have experienced, from failure of leaders and government from maternity scandals: avoidable deaths and injuries, women whose concerns were dismissed, toxic workplace cultures, failures in leadership, an

Why Children, Can’t Afford anymore Medical, Parental, Societal Blindness Birth Trauma: The Silent Crisis Every year, thousands of families silently carry the weight of birth trauma. For too long, a mother’s influences have been dismissed as “baby blues” or “just hormones.” But the truth is clear: ignoring birth trauma comes with staggering health costs for parents, for children and society. I wrote about this crisis in my women’s and children’s health book ‘Pregnancy & Birt

The recent USA declaration about taking Paracetamol while pregnant, its association to Autism from Donal Trump has alarmed drug companies, professionals and women who are pregnant. NHS has announced paracetamol is their first choice of painkiller, safe to use while pregnant. To be used at lowest dose, with the shortest duration. Automation in utero is a changing delicate biochemical process, as infant grows in mother’s womb. Logically, critical processes within utero br