Priorities for safe care and the compromise they pose on personalised care planning during pregnancy and birth.

This presentation will demonstrate the importance of listening to the needs of every individual accessing maternity, to ensure positive outcomes and safe care. It will focus on the lived experience of women and pregnant people including Michelle’s personal experience of engaging with both NHS maternity services and independent midwifery care. Michelle’s experiences range from a Cat 1 caesarean birth due to Grade 4 Placenta Previa to physiological home birth after 2 previous caesareans. Her passion for genuine choice and personalisation in maternity care where injustice and suffering are kicked out of the birth room will be displayed.