Women's Health

Women’s health is a huge issue for Mumsnet’s millions of users, and in 2009 our first ever campaign focused on improving miscarriage care. Mumsnet users have frequently told us about their struggles to access vital women’s health services and all too often women's health is trivialised, belittled and underfunded. That's why we are campaigning to improve multiple areas of women’s healthcare - from access to effective contraception to safe maternity and postnatal care.

Our campaigns

Maternity Care

Over the years we’ve heard from thousands of Mumsnet users that maternity care and postnatal care in the UK isn’t good enough. Feeling unsafe on labour wards, not having their birthing decisions respected and not receiving basic care - such as food, water and pain relief - during their stay on a postnatal ward are just some of the issues we hear about from Mumsnet users. That's why we launched our Better Postnatal Care campaign in 2017 and continue to campaign on important issues such as birth trauma and the need to improve maternity care.

Miscarriage Care

Better Miscarriage Care is Mumsnet’s most long standing campaign. It’s the very first thing we took up on our users’ behalf, way back in 2009, after thousands of searing discussions on Mumsnet among women who felt horribly let down at one of the most difficult moments of their lives. We are campaigning to ensure all women going through this difficult time receive really good, compassionate healthcare that recognises the physical and emotional impacts.

Abortion

Menopause

For a number of years now we’ve joined together with our sister site Gransnet to find out how women are affected by a lack of access to HRT, incomplete information, and difficulty in finding well-versed GPs who can offer really good advice. We have been campaigning for GPs to be given more training in menopause and perimenopause management, and for women to be given clear, well-informed advice on treatment options.