Medicalisation of births in Ireland
- Report raises concerns over frequency of medical interventions during childbirth
- Half of first-time mothers in Irish hospitals have labour induced
- 41% of new mothers given C-section in Irish hospitals
- ‘Ireland over-medicalises birth – and it is terrifying mothers-to-be’
- Call for obstetric violence problem in Irish hospitals to be acknowledged
- Findings of a National Survey on Birth in Ireland (PDF pages 14-19)
- The Drama of Childbirth Jane Gray Department of …
- What’s behind the rise in caesarean births for first-time mums in Ireland?
- Birth Rights Alliance Ireland
- Childbirth policies and practices in Ireland and the journey towards midwifery-led care
- Calls for inquiry into birth trauma in Ireland, as women decry lack of empathy and consent in HSE