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“Gypsy and Traveller people are 20 times more likely to experience the loss of a child.”(Primary Care NHS Wales, 2025) It’s the kind of statistic that should make us stop and take it in fully, because this is not a small disparity or a marginal difference that can be explained away by chance or individual circumstance. It points to something far deeper, something structural, relational, and embedded within the way care is offered, received, and experienced across maternity sy

Informed consent is something we talk about often in birth spaces. It’s part of the language of “good care.” It’s written into guidelines, birth plans, and conversations. Options are explained. Decisions are made. Agreement is given. And from the outside, it can look like everything is clear. But when you sit in the room, when you watch the subtle shifts, the pauses, the glances… a different question starts to emerge. How often is consent truly informed? When agreement doesn’

Most perinatal professionals I meet genuinely care. Deeply. They want to do right by every family they support. And yet when it comes to working with Gypsy and Traveller communities, something often isn’t landing. Not because people don’t care.But because there are gaps many of us were never trained to see. Let’s slow this down. 1. Misreading “Non-Engagement” Missed appointments, late booking, irregular contact. These patterns are often read as disinterest or resistance. But