“Safe care is personalised care,” says Baroness Julia Cumberlege in a letter to the women of England. Launching the report of her review of maternity services in England, Cumberlege is clear about her vision for the future and catchily suggests £3,000 personal birth budgets. But behind those simple-sounding words lurks an argument that I hope she has the support to win.
Women’s basic humanity – and the autonomy, dignity and respect that this should afford them – is often characterised as the enemy of safety in maternity care. Wherever we place ourselves on the natural to medicalised birth spectrum, the narrative is usually the same. Silly women with their unrealistic and downright irresponsible ideas about birth can’t be the ones who decide what happens to their bodies in pregnancy because it’s just not safe for the baby. This ridiculous argument has left attitudes to women in the maternity system in a state of relentless suspension for years.
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