Government launches call for evidence to improve health and wellbeing of women in England

Bumpette.

Hopefully.

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@3beesinmybonnet

I just heard back from MNHQ and they are going to give it a shout out on Twitter

Thanks for the reminder.

Bumping this again x

Done. Thanks for highlighting, I knew nothing about this until reading this thread.

[quote 3beesinmybonnet]@hazandduck
"I’d have thought lots of posters would be interested in it...this needs to be on the main page with lots of traffic!"

@EmbarrassingAdmissions
"Is MNHQ putting in anything?"

Glad other posters think this needs to be more obvious.

@Leafstamp
"I've just contacted MNHQ to see if they can highlight it."

Have you heard anything back yet?[/quote]
Nope, not hear anything. I used the report function though, so will try emailing them now instead. Will report back if I hear something.

Just completed this as sent it by a friend, but I had to do a bit of searching to find a thread on here about it (I was about to start a thread on it and share the link.)

I’d have thought lots of posters would be interested in it...this needs to be on the main page with lots of traffic!

I’ve had so many conversations in real life with women who’ve been infantilised, especially when pregnant, giving birth, immediately postpartum and breastfeeding. I was told I would need physio after I gave birth but due to lockdown (the first one) I never even had a physical 6 week check. My back has never recovered and my whole middle section is weakened by separated stomach muscles.

I agree with everyone that if men gave birth they would not be appeased with a fucking codeine or two over several hours of excruciating pain. Why in this day and age is this level of pain still not taken seriously? (I say this as someone who has given birth twice without any pain relief and I was ok with it but I still believe that other women are entitled to give birth without pain or that my experience is not necessarily the same as others!)

Also, I can’t remember which question it was, but they did use ‘sex’ and not ‘gender’ which was a small plus for me to see.

I don't have any evidence @Thecatonthemat. However, I'll put money on the "constructive" feedback answers outweighing the complementary ones so hopefully some sort of message will get through.

Completed but...does anyone have any evidence that these consultations are anything more than a pat on the back? Though to be fair I was watching on Monday and many female MPs certainly seemed to be standing up for women’s health.

Completed today and bumping

Is MNHQ putting in anything?

Disappointing that BBC haven’t updated/made it more prominent.

However, the article discussed here seems to be a good one:

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/4187060-the-joys-of-being-a-woman-mate-you-ve-got-no-idea

They should have put a link there.

[quote XDownwiththissortofthingX]@sagaLoren

totally agree.

This is slightly off on a tangent, but smacks of the same thing.

I have a close friend who was diagnosed with PCOS many moons ago. She was told in no uncertain terms that because of the state of her ovaries, chances of her conceiving were practically nil. She and her husband habitually used condoms anyway, as neither of them had any wish to be parents anyway. Shortly before her 40th birthday she found out she was pregnant. She did not want to continue the pregnancy, but met with all the same 'are you sure' type questions in the run up to the termination. Afterwards, she was basically taken into a room and given a dressing down for getting pregnant in the first place, then told in no uncertain terms that she wouldn't be leaving the premises without organising some form of contraception. She's no shrinking violet, but genuinely felt bullied and intimidated, so just played along. She explained that hubby was actually on the waiting list for a vasectomy, and while this was met with approval, the issue still wasn't resolved as far as the staff were concerned, so she was booked in to have a coil fitted. Coil was never inserted properly, gave her all sorts of pain and discomfort, her weight ballooned in the space of the two months it was in, her periods went haywire, and she's never been the same since.

It's the belligerence, the shaming for having the temerity to have an unwanted and unwelcome pregnancy, and the railroading to a form of contraception that she had never been comfortable with, even though her husband had taken practical steps to avoid conception himself, and she had previously been told she was practically infertile anyway. So much for pastoral care and empathy.[/quote]
Appalling.
I had hoped things had improved.

Thanks for the thread, OP.

I will fill in the survey. Just going through "NHS ping-pong". I had my cervical screening a few weeks ago, but the nurse couldn't get a sample due to polyps. So she said she'd refer me to gynaecology as she wants those polyps checked.
The gyn department said not until after I had a scan and review with the GP. I will have the scan this afternoon, but then it'll be god knows how long until the review with the GP before, hopefully, being referred back to gynaecology.
And of course, I didn't know about that until I received the letter asking me to attend the scan.

It's times like these where I really miss my lovely Gyn in Germany, I went to her once a year for a complete check-up that included a smear test, breast exam and TV ultrasound to check the ovaries. And while I was not a big fan of climbing onto the gynaecological chair, it was helpful as it put you into the right position.