Your experiences

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

A mother's experience of Oxford University Hospital Maternity Services in 2004: In 2004 my twins were born at the JR. Twin 1 was...

A mother's experience of Oxford University Hospitals Maternity Services in 2017: I was induced into labour even though my daughter's head...

A mother's experience of Oxford University Hospitals Maternity Services in 2009: JR Hospital failed to notice severe abnormalities with...

A mother's experience of Oxford University Hospitals Maternity Services in 2022 and 2024: I’ve burst into tears reading these...

A mother's experience of Oxford University Hospitals Maternity Services in 2020: I had a very complicated pregnancy from early on, so I...

A mother's experience of Oxford University Hospitals Maternity Services in 2022: 3 years ago today I was meant to go on a babymoon...