Your experiences

"as a 19 year old giving birth, I don’t think they took anything I said seriously."

A mother's experience of Oxford University Hospitals Maternity Services in 2012 and 2024: I have had two experiences at the JR. My son...

Anonymous

Sep 11

"If I had left with my daughter as planned, she would have died on the way home."

A mother's experience of Oxford University Hospitals Maternity Services in 2020: In May 2020, I had my youngest daughter naturally and...

Anonymous

Sep 11

"I still feel like our son could have been saved and the care I received before, during and after his birth was appalling."

A mother's experience of Oxford University Hospitals Maternity Services in 2019: Firstly this hasn’t been an easy decision to share our...

Anonymous

Aug 29

"I get that the NHS is strained but my word, treating a person like a human being and showing empathy and care should be a given"

A mother's experience of Oxford University Hospitals Maternity Services in 2024: I was already feeling quite nervous about giving birth...

Anonymous

Aug 26

"They objected to helping me care for my baby even when I couldn't move"

A mother's experience of Oxford University Hospitals Maternity Services in 2022 and 2024: I have twice given birth at the JR, in 2022 and...

Anonymous

Aug 26

"they told me it was one of the largest cases of anal prolapse they had seen"

A mother’s experience of Oxford University Hospitals Maternity Services in 2012: I initially thought I was just very unlucky — a one-off...

Anonymous

Aug 22

"I can tell you for a fact that the maternity services need a serious overhauling."

A mother’s experience of Oxford University Hospitals Maternity Services in 2023: I’m a nurse in the JR and I can tell you for a fact that...

Anonymous

Aug 22

"Being left in a room, with no help, no painkiller and no idea what was happening to me was terrifying"

A mother’s experience of Oxford University Hospitals Maternity Services in 2018: I had a very traumatic birth with my first child. I went...

Anonymous

Aug 22

"baby was suffocating, he had forceps and a few other tools to pull him out. I've been left with being incontinent"

A mother’s experience of Oxford University Hospitals Maternity Services in 2019 and 2023: My now 6 year old was born in 2019 at just 24...

Anonymous

Aug 22

"I was left uncared for and completely traumatised"

A mother’s experience of Oxford University Hospitals Maternity Services in 2025: I had a problem free c section but then was sent to...

Anonymous

Aug 22

"I gave birth to another little boy who only lived for 5 five minutes...I have never been the same since."

A mother’s experience of Oxford University Hospitals Maternity Services in 2013 and 2015: Listening to the news earlier today about the...

Anonymous

Aug 22

"I came across some of the worst workers I’ve encountered in the health service who are failing mothers and their babies."

A mother’s experience of Oxford University Hospitals Maternity Services in 2018 and 2020: I had a horrendous experience in 2018 with the...

Anonymous

Aug 22

"I'd lost so much blood before they realised what was happening."

A mother’s experience of Oxford University Hospitals Maternity Services in 2017: I had a massive internal bleed after an emergency...

Anonymous

Aug 22

"My mum used to be a midwife and described the whole thing as barbaric"

A mother’s experience of Oxford University Hospitals Maternity Services in 2024: I arrived at the Women's Centre on a stormy December...

Anonymous

Aug 22

“I have never EVER experienced care like it. It’s so degrading, careless and humiliating.”

A mother’s experience of Oxford University Hospitals Maternity Services in 2024: My labour was long and traumatic as a first-time mum....

Anonymous

Aug 22

“I have a lifelong injury thanks to a poorly managed forceps delivery...I spent years crippled with pain, barely existing"

A mother’s experience of Oxford University Hospitals Maternity Services in 2013: I have a lifelong injury thanks to a poorly managed...

Anonymous

Aug 22

"the trauma of not being listened to and of being left alone a lot has caused me a lot of postpartum anxiety."

A mother’s experience of Oxford University Hospitals Maternity Services in 2024: My waters broke at 4 am on a Tuesday morning in...

Anonymous

Aug 22

"I can categorically say it was the worst time of my life"

A mother’s experience of Oxford University Hospitals Maternity Services in 2014-15: I gave birth to my daughter in 2015. It’s all a bit...

Anonymous

Aug 22

“I overhead the registrar mutter to the midwife that I should have had a caesarean two days ago.”

A mother’s experience of Oxford University Hospitals Maternity Services in 2019: My first child was born in the John Radcliffe in 2019....

Anonymous

Aug 22

"I was rushed to see [obstetrician name] who said he could see from my notes that 'we were pissing each other off'"

A mother's experience of Oxford University Hospitals Maternity Services in 2020: I’m now ready to share my story. I need to disclose that I am medically-qualified, and have previously worked in the obs and gynae department at the JR on a 4-month rotation as a foundation year doctor. I have not practiced clinically for 14 years, for reasons that are not related to my birth story. However, my experience working at OUH informed my desire to ask for an elective c-section for my o

Anonymous

Aug 22

"I was waiting two hours in the most unimaginable pain, my eyes were rolling to the back of my head"

A mother's experience of Oxford University Hospitals Maternity Services in 2025: 1. When I arrived, I was given my first midwife who was...

Anonymous

Aug 21

"the JR, in my opinion, was disgraceful and not fit for purpose."

A mother's experience of Oxford University Hospitals Maternity Services in 2025: I had a traumatic and rushed labour at the JR back in...

Anonymous

Aug 21

"Another 30 mins, I’d have died."

A mother's experience of Oxford University Hospitals Maternity Services in 2007: Emergency c-section. Left in ward with no obs being...

Anonymous

Aug 21

"I drained the catheter myself at home to remove it because I couldn't take the pain anymore"

A mother's experience of Oxford University Hospitals Maternity Services in 2020: I gave birth to my first child in November 2020. I...

Anonymous

Aug 20