Jenna: Two Births, NHS Hospital Forceps Birth, Denied Gas and Air, Ectopic Pregnancy, Birth Trauma and Healing NHS Home Birth

British Birthing Stories · Feb 19, 2026 · 45m

Jenna is a mum of two boys, Bertie and Laurie, from Kent. She shares two very different NHS experiences: a traumatic first hospital birth that ended in a forceps delivery, and a healing second birth at home.

Jenna's first labour lasted 42 hours and left her with birth trauma she didn't fully understand until much later. Second time around, a home birth midwife's calm, hands off support during pushing became the moment everything changed. Jenna told the midwives afterwards that they had helped heal some of her birth trauma, simply by letting her give birth the way she had always wanted.

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