If we rely on private maternity care led by consultants, and fail to invest in midwife-led public care which puts mothers and babies first that is not going to happen.
Krysia Lynch of the lobby group for maternity services, AIMS Ireland, talked to one Mount Carmel mother who said she was “physically man-handled” out of the nursery when she went to see her baby. “There was still the culture that if you wanted to go out to dinner with your husband and without the baby the day after the birth, they would facilitate that.” (Examiner) >
Filed under: Mount Carmel, Services Tagged: Public v Private
