From being refused help at their most vulnerable, to their child being born unresponsive, women have spoken to The Independent about their traumatic experiences of childbirth.
It comes as new research found over half of women who had a traumatic experience of childbirth say the ordeal has put them off having more children. Mumsnet, who polled 1,000 of their members, discovered that 53 per cent of mothers who had a distressing birth say the trauma has deterred them from giving birth again.
