Suicidal after birth

Birth injuries are alarmingly common in mums, but diagnosis and treatment painfully hard to come by.

Mum-of-one Natalie had to go to France before finally getting a diagnosis and management of the severe pinching pain in her pelvis and vulva, caused by a compressed pudendal nerve.

The pain - pudendal neuralgia - was dismissed by GPs and resulted in specialists laughing at poor Natalie instead of helping her.

I spoke to her and wrote her moving and shocking story for Sunday Mirror’s Notebook magazine, New, OK and Femail

Read it here.

Help Natalie pay for her continuing treatment in France with a donation here.