Your experiences

"We won a court case against the hospital to provide medical care for him. They admitted negligence."

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

Anonymous

Aug 20

"I begged them to do a scan to check where her head was"

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

Anonymous

Aug 20

"My boy would have been 16. That hospital failed me from start to finish."

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

Anonymous

Aug 20

"I’ve burst into tears reading these experiences. I felt I’ve been suffering in silence for years"

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

Anonymous

Aug 20

"my son had died and my world shattered. The hospital missed the window to save him."

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

Anonymous

Aug 20

"I asked again and again... they said they don't really have ultrasounds in this ward."

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

Anonymous

Aug 20

"My husband had to literally beg the midwives to come and check me and give me pain relief"

A mother's experience of Oxford University Hospitals Maternity Services in 2024: I was lucky enough to be signed off to have an elective...

Anonymous

Aug 20

"they [OUH staff] wouldn't recommend me having a baby at the hospital as nothing was in a good state."

A mother's experience of Oxford University Hospitals Maternity Services in 2023: I gave birth at the JR after being transferred from the...

Anonymous

Aug 20

"the midwife said I couldn’t have an elective c section because I had no medical grounds to"

A mother's experience of Oxford University Hospitals Maternity Services in 2019-2020: From the moment I had my first midwife appointment...

Anonymous

Aug 18

"'I’ve been trying to tell you something was wrong, I knew something was wrong.'"

A mother's experience of Oxford University Hospitals Maternity Services in 2018 and 2024: My husband and I experienced serious and...

Anonymous

Aug 14

"to lose my child and almost lose my life after all the discomfort that came with my pregnancy is very scary and painful"

A mother's experience of Oxford University Hospitals Maternity Services in 2020 and 2023: I lost my first baby in 2020 after going into...

Anonymous

Aug 14

"the aftercare was so bad I could cry thinking about it"

A mother's experience of Oxford University Hospitals Maternity Services in 2021 and 2024: I have given birth to both my sons there and...

Anonymous

Aug 12

" I apparently lost 1.25L of blood. I was not offered any blood products to aid my recovery"

A mother's experience of Oxford University Hospitals Maternity Services in 2022: I have a complaint/concerns about the community...

Anonymous

Jul 20

"a plastic cap at the end of the syringe was squirted into the mouth of [son’s name]. He swallowed the cap"

A mother's and father's experience of Oxford University Hospitals Maternity Services in 2023: Unfortunately, we struggled to conceive a...

Anonymous

Jul 20

"everybody [staff] was happy, chatting away while I was vomiting and choking on my own vomit"

A mother's experience of Oxford University Hospitals Maternity Services in 2020: I gave birth in the JR delivery suite in the autumn of...

Anonymous

Jul 20

"I was told that a planned C-section wasn’t available"

A mother's experience of Oxford University Hospitals Maternity Services in 2018: My Birth Trauma Story In June 2018, I found out I was...

Anonymous

Jul 18

"There was a complete lack of respect and decency towards us"

A father's experience of Oxford University Hospitals Maternity Services in 2025: Our newborn twins have been clearly unsettled during the...

Anonymous

Jul 18

"It was only when the sheets became soaked with blood that I felt I was being listened to"

A mother's experience of Oxford University Hospitals Maternity Services in 2009: I had my first child in June 2007 weighing 6lb 9oz...

Anonymous

Jul 17

"No one came and I kept knocking it [cannula] so removed it myself"

A mother's experience of Oxford University Hospitals Maternity Services in 2024: I had a planned c section with my 2nd child due to being...

Anonymous

Jul 17

"A midwife laughed when she saw the amount of blood and told me it was nothing"

A mother's experience of Oxford University Hospitals Maternity Services in 2024: 12 week scan, so anxious. I told the sonographer how I...

Anonymous

Jul 17

"My basic needs were not met. I went without food for 24 hours"

A mother's experience of Oxford University Hospitals Maternity Services in 2024: If I had to describe my experience on the postnatal...

Anonymous

Jul 17

"when they sewed me up, I felt every stitch"

A mother's experience of Oxford University Hospitals Maternity Services in 2024: Prenatal care was fine. Postnatal was horrible for me....

Anonymous

Jul 17

"I begged them to save my daughter but they didn’t"

A mother's experience of Oxford University Hospitals Maternity Services in 2025: I lost my 29 week old little girl because no one acted...

Anonymous

Jul 13

"26 years on, I still have psychological trauma"

A mother's experience of Oxford University Hospitals Maternity Services in 1999: I was 42+ weeks gestation and throughout my pregnancy...

Anonymous

Jul 13