Some of you might remember the internal examination thread which ended up with so many women telling the stories of the poor experiences at the hands of health care professionals during their pregnancies, labours and in the post natal period.
Many women spoke of lack of consent, poor communication and lack of respect from those who they should have been able to trust in their most vulnerable hours.
One poster spoke of being held down to be stitched because the pain relief had not yet taken hold and she was writhing in pain, while an other described being made to feel like "the dead meat around the foetus".
Its 2013, these and all the stories like them on the original thread should have been consigned to the history books long ago but instead we are being made to live them.
In response to this some of us are trying to start a campaign to bring this type of treatment to an end.
We have three broad aims:
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to help empower and support women making complaints against HCPs involved in their obstetric care.
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to help educate HCPs to examine their practice and improve their treatment of pregnant, labouring and post natal women.
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to lobby to bring about legislation to protect women against obstetric violence.
Some amazing posters have started a website from where we hope to make a start on these aims, you can join us at:
maternity-rights.webs.com/