Parenting columnist calls for pregnant women to ‘take control’ during labour as she argues they are ‘made to look like bad mothers’ for questioning doctors
- Milli Hill, 44, from Somerset, calls for women to ‘put themselves in driving seat’
- Said there is lack of consent in delivery rooms which are ‘land feminism forgot’
- Mother-of-three suggested women could be left traumatised by giving birth
- Said women who question what is happening start to look ‘dangerous’
A parenting columnist has suggested pregnant women should take ‘control’ in the delivery room.
Milli Hill, 44, from Somerset, called for women to ‘put themselves in the driving seat’ during labour in her radical new book Give Birth Like a Feminist.
She argues that nurses and midwives should ensure the mother is the one making decisions while giving birth, and said there was a lack of consent and understanding in delivery rooms.
The mother-of-three told The Sunday Times: ‘Everything is put forward as safety – so if you question what is happening, you start to look like a dangerous woman, a bad mother.’
Milli Hill, from Somerset, called for women to ‘put themselves in the driving seat’ in the delivery room, which she called ‘the land that feminism forgot’
Calling the delivery room ‘the land that feminism forgot’, the parenting columnist went on to explain that control should be given to the women giving birth.
She said that pregnant woman should be able to write up to four birth plans so they have alternatives mapped out in their first choice fails.
Milli explained: ‘When women give birth – they hand over their bodily autonomy and rights – often without realising they’re doing it.’
She went on to say that doctors and nurses tended to tell women what they were going to do, as opposed to asking permission to do it.
The mother-of-three suggested that women ‘hand over their bodily autonomy and rights’ giving birth (pictured with two of her daughters)
The parenting columnist added that women who ‘question what is happening’ during birth are ‘look like a dangerous woman, a bad mother’ (pictured with one of her daughters)
She added that most couples think the majority of choices are out of their control, with women feeling they have little choice but to accept what is happening.
The mother-of-three said she’d been left traumatised by the birth of her third child Albie, 5, who was born after she had an episiotomy – a cut to the opening of the vagina.
She went on to say that while the conversation was often about how to help those traumatised by birth, it rarely focused on why women are traumatised.
The parenting columnist previously stirred controversy when she said newborns did not want a father after birth
The parenting columnist stirred controversy in the past when she said newborns did not want a father after birth.
Milli has stirred up controversy with her comments – written in a column for Best Daily – in response to the news Labour plan to extend paternity leave to four weeks.
She writes: ‘This time of nurturing a tiny life is mainly (not ‘just’, but ‘mainly’), for mums, and dads who have visions of bonding in this time are likely to end up feeling disappointed, left out and about as useful as t*ts on a bull.’
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