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I’m a doctor but I wasn’t prepared for my trauma giving birth – and neither was the NHS

Clara Doran is a GP who’s delivered babies and counselled new mums, but when she found herself terrified and crying on a maternity hospital ward at 5am, she realised that even with all her medical training, she wasn’t prepared for the birth of her child – and, more alarmingly, neither was the NHS.

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Source: Independent, 20 August 2025

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