Tag Archives: childbirth

Major review into health scandals

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-5438429/Government-announces-review-three-health-scandals.html Prime Minister Theresa May’s sudden decision last week to review official responses to women left crippled by implanted surgical mesh is of little comfort to Dorothy Byrne. Dorothy is one of thousands of women who have suffered life-changing problems as a consequence of the use of the little-tested plastic mesh, introduced to treat incontinence […]

The women left unable to sit down for years after; having a baby

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-4125720/The-woman-unable-sit-YEARS-giving-birth.html For years after the birth of her daughter in 2003, Debra Shaw regarded the prospect of any sort of treat — a foreign holiday, a trip to the cinema, or a meal in a restaurant — with total dismay. For she couldn’t sit down because of agonising pain radiating from her coccyx, the bony […]