First personal accounts of birth trauma to be heard at inquiry hearing

Lisa Langley attended the public hearing into birth trauma in Wollongong on Thursday with her three-month-old baby Jenson. Picture by Sylvia Liber

Women from across the Illawarra are sharing their stories of birth trauma at a public hearing in Wollongong, which will be the first personal accounts to be shared in from of the NSW Parliament Select Committee.

At an all-day hearing held at the Sage Hotel, there will be six individual women speaking to the panel of parliamentarians.