Felicity Cottle

Before Christmas we covered the Baroness Amos report into maternity and neonatal care. It was pretty horrific reading. Women not being listened to - mums and babies being harmed or even dying when they shouldn't be. And perhaps the most depressing thing of all... absolutely none of it was a surprise. Because multiple reports and multiple reviews over multiple years have told us the same thing. But after we did that reporting, something quite extraordinary happened. We were inundated with emails from women who wanted to share their experiences and their stories. I've been a journalist for 20 years and I've never seen anything like it. Women whose lives were put at risk. Women who lost babies. Women who weren't listened to - who were treated like vessels rather than human beings. So today we brought some of those women together into the studio to talk about what happened to them. We know the problems with maternity care. We've had reports, we've had reviews, we've had hand-wringing and serious faces from politicians and NHS leaders, and promises that things will change. But nothing seems to change. It all seems to stay exactly the same. And it's just not ok. So we're not going to move on and allow the news cycle to shift onto something else. We're going to demand change. And we're going to do it by amplifying the voices of the women who wrote to us with their story to share. And if you've got a story - let us know. We're going to be doing everything we can to get those stories in front of the politicians and the NHS leaders who can do something about it.