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Background I am emeritus professor of obstetrics & gynaecology at the University of Nottingham and, until I retired in 2024, was a consultant obstetrician at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS…

As far as I know, no obstetrician appeared as an expert witness at the trial. This may not surprise most people; the allegations were of murder and attempted murder in a neonatal unit. But it’…

The risk of stillbirth is increased in women with intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy and singleton pregnancies when serum bile acids concentrations are of 100 μmol/L or more. Because most women...

Most people imagine hospital is the safest place to be born, and it is if your mother has obstructed labour, major bleeding, or eclampsia. But hospital also has dangers. Not just infection, and blo…

I had intended to post a mother-by-mother analysis of the publicly available obstetric details, to show how consideration of the pregnancies and births might have helped the court. But my scene-set…