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If this has changed your opinions or actions please let us know. We need o know that something positive is coming of what has been done to us. Some people call me brave for doing this, I just have to do what I can to try and stop the next me.

I once read in a book that a hysterectomy should not be considered before 8 – 10 units of blood has been transfused but I haven’t found it since, anyone know it?

Of course finding more people. We will only obtain the correct statistics by the people coming forward. I do not, and I am not alone, believe that anyone is compiling and every hospital is releasing their true statistics.

22 May 2001 This was sent to me by a friend of mine...

"Something else which may give you some hope - a good friend of mine the other day was telling me about this story she'd read on the Web, and how she'd cried while reading it, and how it had made her determined to avoid going into hospital - and I started to recognise the details, and it was yours. Another mother I email with, whose baby died, said that having read your story she did feel that she should count her blessings, because she could still have another baby - and if she'd been through what you went through, she would have fallen to pieces. Her situation was that most obs would have recommended a CS, but she had a vaginal birth. The baby's death doesn't seem to be connected to that, though - if she'd had the CS she would have a dead baby and a CS. She has a hospital phobia so that would have been completely devastating, as opposed to just devastating... She remembered you from the UK Midwifery list and was amazed that you had so much strength to campaign and tell people about hysterectomies. So you really are making a difference to people's lives."

11 August 2003 from Jenny

I read your website, there are no words....

I understand now why you have a website, and why it is called that. I worked originally with NCT because I wanted to help encourage mums to go to ante natal classes so that they could make informed decisions... but I have never heard of a case like yours. I have known mums to have episiotomies without consent.

Words fail me, the word sorry sounds so inadequate, bit I am sorry that you have gone through all of that and still suffer the consequences.