Hello,
We at MNHQ are getting ready to launch the next phase of our ongoing Better Postnatal Care campaign www.mumsnet.com/campaigns/better-postnatal-care. The first part of the campaign was focused on women’s experiences on postnatal wards. This second phase will focus on women’s experiences of birth injuries and related health conditions, especially those which can affect women for months or years after birth.
As part of our campaign, we’re looking for Mumsnet users who are or have been affected by health conditions that arose as a result of birth injuries or difficult births, who would be willing to be media case studies to help publicise the campaign. [MESSAGE EDITED to remove reference to women having given birth in the past three years - MNHQ]
We're talking about things such as painful scarring from birth injuries or stitches, pelvic organ prolapses, pain or discomfort that affects sex, or problems with urinary or faecal incontinence.
We’re looking for as broad a range of experiences as possible - we'd love to hear from both women who sought and received good medical care, and those who have not sought medical care (and those who sought it but did not receive what they needed).
If this sounds like you and you’d be comfortable talking to the media about your experience – anonymously or not – please email [email protected] for more information.
Getting in touch with us does not commit you to acting as a case study. We always run any media opportunities past our volunteers, and you will always have the final say about whether to go ahead with a media opportunity or not.
Finally, ideally you'd be reasonably available and in the country/near a reliable phone during the first couple of weeks of April.
Thanks very much,
MNHQ