Appalling failure of the NHS Obstetric services to detect birth injury to mothers.

[purpledalmation]

I was listening to a webinar about birth injury, and listened to two colorectal surgeons talking about the damage done to a woman's genital/rectal areas during vaginal delivery childbirth.

I was shocked and horrified that prior to stitching up the area is not properly or routinely examined resulting in external tears being stitched, leaving internal tears to heal badly and never to return to normal because the window of opportunity is closed and scarring and abnormalities result.

This results is urinary and faecal incontinence, wind, urgency to poo, poo accidents and so on. An absolute nightmare to women and often meaning they can't return to normal working, can't have further children, experience pain during sex, pain, and embarrassment.

masic.org.uk/ This organisation is campaigning for better care.

It’s always assumed that because something should always happen it does always happen. It may be hard for the good doctors and midwives out there to believe that some of their colleagues don’t do a good job, but it’s true. Some of the posts on this thread and others demonstrate that very well. And a lot of us are told everything is fine, even when nobody has looked properly.

It was a webinar I was invited to by a charity and by a firm of solicitors setting up a birth injury hub. If you check out MASIC or birth injury association you would get some ideas. The surgeon was talking about ways to mitigate injury but wasn't very specific as he only had a limited time.

Shit sorry! How on earth did my post end up here? Will ask to get it removed 😳