Some women who opt for alternative births are being forced towards medical intervention or threatened with social services, yet they are doing nothing wrong
Sarah Holdway was sitting outside her Yorkshire home in July while her baby, Violet, slept. As her four older children picnicked beside her, two strangers approached. “The man said he was from Humberside police,” says Sarah, “and that this was a social worker and that we had been reported for child trafficking.”
Three months earlier, Sarah’s baby had been born in an unassisted birth – also known as a freebirth. After two homebirths attended by medical professionals, she planned for her third and fourth babies to be born without medical help. In England and Wales, there is no legal obligation to have medical care in pregnancy or childbirth, her midwife had been fully supportive of her decision, and both births went well. Pregnant for a fifth time, living in a new area, Sarah, 33, once again gave birth easily at home.
Related: Freebirthing: is giving birth without medical support safe?
Twice they waited outside and she heard them say, 'If you just let us in to see the baby, this will all go away.'
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