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Fearne Cotton

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Happy Place
Louise Thompson: Maternity care is bleak! Mental and physical scars of my traumatic birth

Before we do that, we have got a whole load of stuff to chat about.

Happy Place
Louise Thompson: Maternity care is bleak! Mental and physical scars of my traumatic birth

Now, having followed bits of your journey, you're in a really interesting place at the moment.

Happy Place
Louise Thompson: Maternity care is bleak! Mental and physical scars of my traumatic birth

For one reason, you had a big, big week the other week where you put forward a petition to the UK Parliament.

Happy Place
Louise Thompson: Maternity care is bleak! Mental and physical scars of my traumatic birth

And this is all in order to appoint a maternity commissioner.

Happy Place
Louise Thompson: Maternity care is bleak! Mental and physical scars of my traumatic birth

This is very big, important work.

Happy Place
Louise Thompson: Maternity care is bleak! Mental and physical scars of my traumatic birth

Can you tell us what that role would mean to, well, women and men out there?

Happy Place
Louise Thompson: Maternity care is bleak! Mental and physical scars of my traumatic birth

Because it would affect everybody and benefit everybody.

Happy Place
Louise Thompson: Maternity care is bleak! Mental and physical scars of my traumatic birth

How would that affect us?

Happy Place
Louise Thompson: Maternity care is bleak! Mental and physical scars of my traumatic birth

It's crazy to me that it needs debating.

Happy Place
Louise Thompson: Maternity care is bleak! Mental and physical scars of my traumatic birth

I know.

Happy Place
Louise Thompson: Maternity care is bleak! Mental and physical scars of my traumatic birth

It's someone close to you in life will at some point possibly get pregnant and have to go through what's supposed to be this magical, amazing experience can really be turned on its head if the maternity care isn't there.

Happy Place
Louise Thompson: Maternity care is bleak! Mental and physical scars of my traumatic birth

And this petition has been inspired because you have this inquiry and report.

Happy Place
Louise Thompson: Maternity care is bleak! Mental and physical scars of my traumatic birth

that has all of these bleak statistics in there about postnatal care and also prenatal care.

Happy Place
Louise Thompson: Maternity care is bleak! Mental and physical scars of my traumatic birth

And that it's massively lacking.

Happy Place
Louise Thompson: Maternity care is bleak! Mental and physical scars of my traumatic birth

And also that a lot of it's to do with sort of a postcode lottery.

Happy Place
Louise Thompson: Maternity care is bleak! Mental and physical scars of my traumatic birth

Depending on where you live, quite literally depends on what that standard of care will be, which seems absurd.

Happy Place
Louise Thompson: Maternity care is bleak! Mental and physical scars of my traumatic birth

But you're bringing the heat and the attention to it.

Happy Place
Louise Thompson: Maternity care is bleak! Mental and physical scars of my traumatic birth

That's very important.

Happy Place
Louise Thompson: Maternity care is bleak! Mental and physical scars of my traumatic birth

It's all very well and good, and rightly so.

Happy Place
Louise Thompson: Maternity care is bleak! Mental and physical scars of my traumatic birth

Theo, who you're working with, will have that knowledge and that background, but equally we need voices out there speaking about it, and we need the attention on it.