Childbirth

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Rebecca Reid

Giving birth was the worst experience of my life

I didn’t talk about any of this because I, like most people in the UK, love the NHS, and criticising it is a kind of blasphemy

Lifestyle
First Person

I made motherhood sound like torture - I was wrong

News

'I waited six days for my waters to be broken after midwives raised concerns about my baby'

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Lifestyle

Giving birth to my son caused part of my brain to stop working

Environment
Big Read

Climate change is affecting how we have babies, from sex to birth

Article thumbnail: I have a story of common trauma and good fortune because my child lived and so, in a fog of sadness, did I. But that I even frame it as good luck is interesting because I wasn’t lucky (Photo: Westend61/Getty Images)
Article thumbnail: I have a story of common trauma and good fortune because my child lived and so, in a fog of sadness, did I. But that I even frame it as good luck is interesting because I wasn’t lucky (Photo: Westend61/Getty Images)
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Article thumbnail: EMBARGOED TO 0001 WEDNESDAY AUGUST 23 Undated handout photo issued by Womb Transplant UK of Isabel Quigora and Richard Smith (right) performing a womb transplant on a 34-year-old woman. Surgeons have performed the UK's first womb transplant on a woman whose sister was the living donor. The 34-year-old married woman received the womb - also called the uterus - during an operation lasting nine hours and 20 minutes carried out at the Churchill Hospital in Oxford. Issue date: Wednesday August 23, 2023. PA Photo. The lead surgeons for the transplant, which took place on a Sunday in early February, were Professor Richard Smith, clinical lead at the charity Womb Transplant UK and consultant gynaecological surgeon at Imperial College London, and Isabel Quiroga, consultant surgeon at the Oxford Transplant Centre, part of Oxford University Hospitals. See PA story HEALTH Womb. Photo credit should read: Womb Transplant UK/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.
Article thumbnail: EMBARGOED TO 0001 WEDNESDAY AUGUST 23 Undated handout photo issued by Womb Transplant UK of Isabel Quigora and Richard Smith (right) performing a womb transplant on a 34-year-old woman. Surgeons have performed the UK's first womb transplant on a woman whose sister was the living donor. The 34-year-old married woman received the womb - also called the uterus - during an operation lasting nine hours and 20 minutes carried out at the Churchill Hospital in Oxford. Issue date: Wednesday August 23, 2023. PA Photo. The lead surgeons for the transplant, which took place on a Sunday in early February, were Professor Richard Smith, clinical lead at the charity Womb Transplant UK and consultant gynaecological surgeon at Imperial College London, and Isabel Quiroga, consultant surgeon at the Oxford Transplant Centre, part of Oxford University Hospitals. See PA story HEALTH Womb. Photo credit should read: Womb Transplant UK/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.
Article thumbnail: EMBARGOED TO 0001 WEDNESDAY AUGUST 23 Undated handout photo issued by Womb Transplant UK of lead surgeons Isabel Quigora and Richard Smith. Surgeons have performed the UK's first womb transplant on a woman whose sister was the living donor. The 34-year-old married woman received the womb - also called the uterus - during an operation lasting nine hours and 20 minutes carried out at the Churchill Hospital in Oxford. Issue date: Wednesday August 23, 2023. PA Photo. The lead surgeons for the transplant, which took place on a Sunday in early February, were Professor Richard Smith, clinical lead at the charity Womb Transplant UK and consultant gynaecological surgeon at Imperial College London, and Isabel Quiroga, consultant surgeon at the Oxford Transplant Centre, part of Oxford University Hospitals. See PA story HEALTH Womb. Photo credit should read: Womb Transplant UK/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.
Article thumbnail: EMBARGOED TO 0001 WEDNESDAY AUGUST 23 Undated handout photo issued by Womb Transplant UK of lead surgeons Isabel Quigora and Richard Smith. Surgeons have performed the UK's first womb transplant on a woman whose sister was the living donor. The 34-year-old married woman received the womb - also called the uterus - during an operation lasting nine hours and 20 minutes carried out at the Churchill Hospital in Oxford. Issue date: Wednesday August 23, 2023. PA Photo. The lead surgeons for the transplant, which took place on a Sunday in early February, were Professor Richard Smith, clinical lead at the charity Womb Transplant UK and consultant gynaecological surgeon at Imperial College London, and Isabel Quiroga, consultant surgeon at the Oxford Transplant Centre, part of Oxford University Hospitals. See PA story HEALTH Womb. Photo credit should read: Womb Transplant UK/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.