Louise Thompson

And we have until July to hopefully get a lot, a lot, a lot of signatures.

So hopefully lots of your beautiful listeners can help with that.

And then if you reach 100,000, they will consider debating it in Parliament.

Very scary, and there's a lot of data on the inequality of the care, as you say, quite rightly point out, especially disproportionately more black and Asian mothers that end up dying and people that live in less privileged parts of the country.

And I think it's really shocking.

And you say it should be something that has been considered really regularly and discussed in Parliament really regularly.

Instead, there are regular reports and inquiries into the problem, but nobody is actioning anything.

And I think like the birth inquiry, which did come out in 2024, set a long list of recommendations, which were things like properly educating birthing parents,

creating more mother and baby units for parents that have suffered, six week checkup postpartum for mothers as well as the babies, adequate funding for midwives, obstetricians and anaesthetists to recruit them, train them and also retain them because I think the retention rates are really poor at the moment.

And I get loads of

Ex-midwives who are probably in the generation above us used to love their career and stuck around for 20 odd years, who might have children who have tried it and are just not treated with adequate respect.

And so I think that there's a huge problem.

And, you know, the government spend more money.

paying out medical negligence cases than they do on the care in the first place.

And that's what's so alarming.

And so there clearly needs to be this huge shake up to tackle a lot of these problems for women because it's becoming a systemic issue.

And yeah, I just, I really, really hope that we can get our foot in the door.

And look, I mean, I have very little experience when it comes to politics.

So it's something that I'm interested in.

and I'm reading more about, but it's definitely not my space.