Call The Midwife star Helen George has shared her own experience of cholestasis of pregnancy after the issue featured on the BBC period drama, saying it was “the right time” to do so.
The actress said she had endured months of anxiety in the run up to the birth of her second child, Lark, and that spreading the word about the condition was “really important to me”.
Intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy (ICP) is a potentially serious liver disorder that can develop in pregnancy and affects around one in 140 pregnant women in the UK.
