Birthrights factsheets

Summary

Knowing your rights and the law in pregnancy and childbirth is important. The charity Birthrights has produced a series of factsheets to provide you with the latest information on your rights, where they come from in law, and how they are backed up in guidance.

Content

Factsheets include:

• Birth partners
• Choice of place of birth
• Consent: the key facts
• Disability and long-term health conditions and maternity care
• Human rights in maternity care: the key facts
• Making a complaint
• Mental capacity and maternity care
• Right to NHS services
• Social services and maternity care
• Unassisted birth
• Your right to a caesarean birth
• Your right to see your maternity records
• Your right to choose your midwife or doctor.

Follow the link below to access the factsheets.