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Beth Kitt

Midwife

Jun 30, 2026

PipHOST
2:44
Yeah, yeah, yeah
2:45
... thing, isn't it? But actually it's, it's only England's cesarean rates, um, that have increased.
2:51
So I think that does show very much so how things are changing so much recently, and I, I personally, I've got my own kind of ideas on, on why, um, why that is.
3:06
So the first one is antenatal education.
3:09
So since COVID, I don't know what it's like locally to you, but from what I see locally to me, and obviously across for the amount of women we speak to on social media, antenatal education for group classes has pretty much gone to nothing.
3:26
So before COVID, the NHS offered group classes, but it, it doesn't anymore.
3:33
I don't know if it's the same for you, Pip, in your area, and you hear the same, but it's like that type of ed- uh, antenatal education is, is very much dropping.
PipHOST
5:39
... no time for anything else once you've gone through those things, right?

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