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I feel confused and bewildered by this. How could social services make that call? The welfare of an unborn child is extremely important but was this in the best interests of the mother? It does state that theoretically the council would have had to have shown that there was an acute risk to the mother. Were there intensive assessments made by perinatal psychiatrists or maternity medics? I'm confused. Was it in the best interests of mother and baby alike? Who were social services focussing on. I can't imagine this woman got the specialist psychiatric care she so clearly needed prior to such a horrifying decision. There again, i don't have all the facts to make my own opinion. I only have lots of questions.

Okay so i just read it much more carefully. They must have got her under the mental capacity act as I'm pretty sure they couldn't do this just under the mental health act. So i wonder if she had an advocate or a solicitor to listen to her and explain things to her. To sedate her, enforce her to have a caesarean and to not even talk to her in a way she could understand first (if they didn't) then it feels barbaric and terrifying to me. She should have had all the top specialists involved in the country as an emergency before a decision like this was made.

Urgh trying to write this on my crappy phone and re edit it to add more is not working well, my reply is all over the place.