Yesterday, US midwife Ina May Gaskin collected her prestigious 2011 Right Livelihood Award – widely known as the ‘Alternative Nobel Prize’. She was one of four winners, who celebrated their success at a ceremony in the Swedish Parliament in Stockholm. The Right Livelihood Award jury recognised Gaskin “for her whole-life’s work teaching and advocating safe, […]

Every mother-to-be, in England and Wales, will soon be given the right to have her baby by caesarean section on the NHS, even if there is no medical need. Under new guidelines recommended by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), women will be given the right to choose whether they would prefer […]

4Children, a national charity supporting children, young people and families in communities across Britain, has today published a major report entitled ‘Suffering in Silence’, looking into the experiences of families with postnatal depression. It finds that as many as 35,000 women are suffering in silence with postnatal depression each year. The survey, undertaken by the […]