‘I’m insisting that things be done my way’: readers share their birth stories

Whether choosing a home birth or a hospital birth, we asked readers for their experiences and about the quality of care

I was pregnant, alone and bleeding, but didn’t realise the danger

The day the NHS saved my life: I cannot thank my GP surgery staff enough for their quick and calm response that may have saved me and my baby

Therapy helped me to love my baby after a traumatic pregnancy

Frightened and anxious, I found NHS help which gave me back my life. Cameron’s pledge for more support for mothers must be made a reality

Cuts to sexual health services will lead to STI ‘explosion’, warn experts

Labour analysis predicts £40m less will be spent on testing and treating infection in 2016 despite rates of gonorrhoea and syphilis soaring

Gonorrhoea could become untreatable, says chief medic

Dame Sally Davies asks GPs and pharmacies to ensure they are prescribing correct drugs after 16 cases of drug-resistant strain of STI this year

Home births and hospital births in the UK: share your experiences

If you have given birth in the UK recently, either at home or in a hospital unit, we’d like to hear about your experience

Call to review baby death rates at more than 20 NHS trusts and boards

Inquiry urges those with higher than average stillbirth and newborn death rates to examine their maternity care to see if mistakes were made

Half of perinatal suicides by women ‘could be prevented by better care’

Study finds those who suffer severe mental health problems during or after pregnancy are let down by poor resources and failures to spot warning signs

The junior doctors’ strike is off: so who won? – cartoon

After the compromise comes the spin, and even without industrial action, the government can still claim there’s chaos

The nappy science gang who took on the NHS

It’s best to wash nappies in non-biological detergent, right? Wrong, as a citizen science project discovered when they challenged NHS advice on the subject