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Kelsey Parker, widow of precocious The Wanted vocalist Tom Parker, has told Sky News she experienced "harrowing" attraction aft her lad was stillborn.
Ms Parker, 35, announced the nonaccomplishment of her babe Phoenix, who she expected with caller spouse Will, successful June past year.
The mother-of-two has present spoken to The UK Tonight With Sarah-Jane Mee, wherever she described the devastation suffered aft going into labour and giving commencement astatine location astatine 39 weeks.
She was past taken to a maternity ward with different caller mothers and babies.
"I did not consciousness kindness and I deliberation the radical that had to look aft me, their jaws were connected the floor," she said.
"They didn't cognize what to do, their hands were tied.
"I deliberation for me, reliving it, I needed that clip off. I really took clip disconnected work, which is unheard of for me, due to the fact that I needed clip to process what I went through, and I wouldn't privation what I went done connected anyone.
"It was perfectly horrendous, harrowing, awful."
Sky News has reported extensively connected the authorities of maternity attraction successful the UK, including the stories of 3 women who suffered traumatic experiences.
More than 180 radical person written to Sky News to stock their commencement stories - you tin stock yours by emailing maternitystories@sky.uk.
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Fundamental alteration is agelong overdue
After years of warnings, reviews, and mounting pressure, 2026 could beryllium a pivotal infinitesimal for maternity services.
We've long-known maternity attraction is successful crisis. It is simply a captious work but 1 which is nether sustained strain. And successful immoderate cases, failing mothers and babies with tragic consequences.
Multiple nationalist investigations implicit the past decennary person highlighted superior failings. Each study written has made respective recommendations, and yet the strategy inactive struggles.
Fundamental alteration is agelong overdue, and it could travel with the work of the Amos review. Baroness Amos is looking into system-wide issues, to recognize wherefore problems persist, and what needs to change.
But determination is already scepticism arsenic to what the reappraisal volition achieve. Sky News has received hundreds of emails from families sharing their commencement traumas. All akin stories, each 1 harrowing.
Many families consciousness heavy mistrust, telling america we've been present before, and lessons haven't been learnt. There's a batch of unit to get this right, and advancement volition beryllium judged by affirmative outcomes not promises.
Of the 186 countries the UN collects information for, the UK was 1 of lone 14 wherever maternal mortality rates were higher successful 2020 than they were successful 1985.
The US and Canada were besides successful that group, portion Cyprus and Finland were the lone different European countries.
Over that time, the UK has fallen from having the ninth-lowest maternal mortality complaint successful the satellite to being 42nd.
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