We’re not too posh to push, we’re terrified of the NHS, say mums as C-sections overtake natural births for first time

EMMA CUSDEN had always assumed she would give birth naturally. But once she became pregnant that calm assumption quickly unravelled. Horror stories filled her social feeds, friends recalled their experiences on the labour ward over coffee, and every scan brought her closer to a moment she began to dread. At St Richard’s Hospital in Chichester,…