I'm currently researching the Health in Pregnancy grant for a debate piece in the mag next week, and I came across the committee stage debate on the Health and Social Care Bill which was the legislation that introduced the grant.
I just had to share the opinion of Anne Milton, Tory MP for Guildford.
"Recently," she said, "somebody who works on a labour ward in south London told me that a substantial number of women are asking to stay in for the night after their baby is born because they want to go out clubbing on that first night. Talking from personal experience, when I had a baby, I was locked in a room with the curtains closed. I would never have been able to go to a club, probably even within four weeks of the birth of my children. However, a different sort of women is having babies nowadays, and they are extremely difficult to reach."
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