pregnancy in ireland

This week on Basically... Stefanie talks to consultant OBGYN Dr. Jennifer Donnelly from Dublin’s Rotunda Maternity Hospital. They go baby step by baby step from the moment of seeing a positive pregnancy test, choosing whether to go public,…

In this week’s Sparking Change we’re talking about ‘The Talk’ – or how to discuss sex with your children. Scary? Yes, but it doesn’t need to be. We also discuss a petition for mandatory consent classes in UCC, started by the UCC Feminist…

Between 1944 and 1984 an estimated 1,500 women suffered symphysiotomies during childbirth in Ireland. The procedure, which involves the cutting and unhinging of the pelvis, was performed on women to widen the birth canal during…