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"there was absolutely no empathy given to any of the women in the ward where all the NICU mums were"
A mother’s experience of Oxford University Hospitals Maternity Services in 2023: My story is from 2023 with the birth of my first and...
Anonymous
Jun 28, 2025
"The day I gave birth to my daughter at Oxford hospital was the worst day of my life"
A mother’s experience of Oxford University Hospitals Maternity Services in 2016: The day I gave birth to my daughter at Oxford hospital...
Anonymous
Jun 28, 2025
"In NICU I rarely saw nurses and would sing to comfort the other tiny babies in the bay my daughter was in"
A mother’s experience of Oxford University Hospitals Maternity Services in 2013: My daughter was under consultant care due to growth...
Anonymous
Jun 28, 2025
"Despite repeatedly asking for pain relief, I was made to feel like I was overreacting or being impatient"
A mother’s experience of Oxford University Hospitals Maternity Services in 2021: My experience with the OUH maternity service was in...
Anonymous
Jun 28, 2025
"By the time I had my son it had been 90 hours since my waters had broken"
A mother’s experience of Oxford University Hospitals Maternity Services in 2025: I’ve recently had a very poor experience at this...
Anonymous
Jun 28, 2025
"I was left in the bed in my bloody nightie, bloody sheets and desperate for the toilet"
A mother’s experience of Oxford University Hospitals Maternity Services in 2017 and 2024: It's hard to fully write in words about my...
Anonymous
Jun 28, 2025
"I worked for the trust at the time and by the time I had the courage and strength to complain I was told it’s too late!"
A mother’s experience of Oxford University Hospitals Maternity Services in 2009: It seems a long time ago to some of you but to me it...
Anonymous
Jun 28, 2025
"They got him out put him on my chest and then whipped him off me as I had torn inside and out"
A mother’s experience of Oxford University Hospitals Maternity Services in 2018: I was 42 when I fell pregnant with my miracle baby....
Anonymous
Jun 28, 2025
"I still cannot comprehend the lack of care that I received from the midwives at OUH after I had given birth
A mother's experience of Oxford University Hospitals Maternity Services in 2005: I gave birth in 2005. To this day I still cannot...
Anonymous
Jun 27, 2025
"They then brought out the forceps and clanged them around like they were tongs for a bbq"
A mother's experience of Oxford University Hospitals Maternity Services in 2017: I fell pregnant with my first child in 2017. The...
Anonymous
Jun 26, 2025
"she ‘was too busy to remember my stupid medication’...I was left scared and no longer asked for any pain medication"
A mother’s experience of Oxford University Hospitals Maternity Services in 2018: I was admitted to the JR having started my...
Anonymous
Jun 26, 2025
"They took my chance to grieve my son. They took my voice when I needed to be heard. They took me"
A mother’s experience of Oxford University Hospitals Maternity Services in 2024: They Took Everything From Me — My Story of Loss,...
Anonymous
Jun 26, 2025
"I was told I didn’t “sound like I was in enough pain” and advised to take a bath, relax, and wait longer at home"
A mother’s experience of Oxford University Hospitals Maternity Services in 2021/22: I gave birth to my second daughter in November...
Anonymous
Jun 26, 2025
"I didn’t get taken in to be checked, they left me at home with my baby/foetus"
A mother’s experience of Oxford University Hospitals Maternity Services in 2022: I went to hospital bleeding at 15 weeks pregnant to be...
Anonymous
Jun 26, 2025
"He was resuscitated and, after approximately 17 minutes, took his first breath. As a result, he suffered a severe brain injury."
A mother's experience of Oxford University Hospitals Maternity Services in 2005: My son received substandard care at the John Radcliffe...
Anonymous
Jun 26, 2025
"Still to this date I have scaring on my left lung"
A mother’s experience of Oxford University Hospitals Maternity Services in 2020: That new born first time parent bubble of mine was...
Anonymous
Jun 26, 2025
"I said I wanted to give him formula instead. They told me I was not allowed"
A mother’s experience of Oxford University Hospitals Maternity Services in 2022: I had my baby in summer 2022. At my due date midwife...
Anonymous
Jun 26, 2025
"we were told she should have been supervised by a sensible doctor when carrying out the forceps"
A mother's experience of Oxford University Hospitals Maternity Services in 2022: I gave birth to my daughter, which was a horrendous...
Anonymous
Jun 26, 2025
"I used the birth after thoughts service where I was made to feel like I was mental"
A mother’s experience of Oxford University Hospitals Maternity services in 2018: I went in one evening at 39 weeks to be checked for...
Anonymous
Jun 26, 2025
"my son died as he was starved of oxygen which they knew about due to a deteriorating umbilical cord"
A mother’s experience of Oxford University Hospitals Maternity Services in 2013/14: I was treated as a nobody because I was a “young...
Anonymous
Jun 26, 2025
"Had I left when told to, without being examined, I would have given birth in the car"
A mother’s experience of Oxford University Hospitals Maternity Services in 2012: The services are so thin that they advise women to...
Anonymous
Jun 26, 2025
"the epidural had been put into the wrong part of my spine"
A mother’s experience of Oxford University Hospitals Maternity Services in 2020: I would like to share my birth story. Truth told, both...
Anonymous
Jun 26, 2025
"I expected challenges in childbirth, but never imagined the biggest trauma would come from the people supposed to care for us"
A mother's experience of Oxford University Hospitals Maternity Services in 2022: In November 2022, I gave birth to my son at the John...
Anonymous
Jun 25, 2025
"I complained about pain after being stitched and still needed gas & air. They told me I didn’t need it"
A mother's experience of Oxford University Hospitals Maternity Services in 2016 and 2021: I gave birth in Nov 2016, July 2018 & December...
Anonymous
Jun 23, 2025
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