NHS directed pregnant women to controversial Free Birth Society via charity
by Lucy Osborne and Sirin Kale from World news | The Guardian on (#71Q7S)
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The NHS has been directing pregnant women to a website that connected them to the Free Birth Society, an organisation that has been linked to baby deaths around the world after promoting labour without medical support.
A number of NHS trusts are directing women who are contemplating a free birth" to a charity website that until Monday referred to FBS podcasts as a source of empowering stories" that can help British women preparing for their own birth".
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