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Nine women tell HuffPost UK what it was like to give birth during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Birth Diaries: "My midwife and I were holding hands doing squats together. It was like a workout!"
Birth Diaries: "When my daughter came out, I was exhausted. I felt like I was having an out of body experience."
Pregnant women and new mums are sharing their experiences of Covid-19 restrictions, using the hashtag #ButNotMaternity.
Birth Diaries: "I’ve been in midwifery for over a decade, so I’ve seen a lot. Beautiful births, peaceful births at home, all the way to very traumatic births."
Birth Diaries: 'It’s exactly what I didn’t want, but the whole team was so calm and reassuring. I had an all-female team in theatre!'
From conception to parenting, three Black women discuss the challenges and joys of being a mother for Black Ballad's takeover of HuffPost UK.
Black women are at highest risk of death during childbirth – we ignore this fact at their peril.
From dying in childbirth to being admitted to hospital for Covid-19 – evidence shows Black mothers face the greatest health inequalities of any parent in the UK. The words in this feature, recorded by Black women in Britain, are based on findings from Black Ballad Original Data, MBRRACE-UK and NPEU research at the University of Oxford.
Black women recall discrimination, microaggressions and substandard care during pregnancy in a new survey.