Louise Thompson

And so this felt like the answer.

And when I went through those worst times, I thought that I was totally alone.

I thought that I was just this hugely unlucky person.

I thought I was one in 100 million.

There are 30,000 women a year that end up with PTSD following a traumatic birth.

That's 5% of all births.

And I think with somebody to take control of everything, we have a health minister.

It's not enough.

They don't have enough time to focus solely on the maternity care in this country.

And also the stats are quite scary.

And I don't want to sit here and just fearmonger because obviously a huge...

part of your following, huge demographic, will be women of childbearing age.

I think this is really about educating people.

So yeah, there was this Guardian article that came out last week which suggested that the Tories, they wanted to obviously work to reducing maternal deaths

Over a 15 year period, I think that the sad reality is that in the last 14 years, the death rates have gone up by 20%.

So it's kind of turned into a national scandal.

And we're kind of we just want to want to move things.

So within the first 24 hours, we had 10,000 signatures.

And for any petition, you need 10,000 signatures to get a response from Parliament.

You've got six months, so there's a six-month window.