Your experiences

"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, 2025

"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, 2025

"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, 2025

"'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, 2025

"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, 2025

"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, 2025

" 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, 2025

"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, 2025

"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, 2025

"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, 2025

"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, 2025

"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, 2025

"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, 2025

"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, 2025

"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, 2025

"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, 2025

"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, 2025

"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, 2025

"Turns out my son was given untested breast milk"

A mother's experience of Oxford University Hospitals Maternity Services in 2021/22: My son was born prematurely at 33 weeks. My prenatal...

Anonymous

Jul 13, 2025

"I have copies of maternity records that have been crossed out and changed"

A mother’s experience of Oxford University Hospitals Maternity Services in 2018: I had my son on the 1st July 2018. My waters had broken...

Anonymous

Jul 7, 2025

"It felt cold. It felt careless. And I felt invisible"

A mother’s experience of Oxford University Hospitals Maternity Services in 2025: I’ve gone back and forth about whether to share this....

Anonymous

Jul 7, 2025

"That was an extremely traumatic experience"

A mother’s experience of Oxford University Hospitals Maternity Services in 2021: My son was stillborn at 29 weeks while I was on...

Anonymous

Jul 7, 2025

"The first pair of forceps were broken and the excruciating pain of them trying to make them work while they were inside of me is still something I can feel today"

A mother’s experience of Oxford University Hospitals Maternity Services in 2018: I had my daughter at OUH in 2018. I’d been in labour...

Anonymous

Jun 28, 2025

"midwife came storming in at 2:15am, turned the lights on and started to shout at me"

A mother’s experience of Oxford University Hospitals Maternity Services in 2019: I fell pregnant with fraternal twins in early 2019,...

Anonymous

Jun 28, 2025