Lecturer: Women who experience “trauma” of concealing pregnancy should not be “pathologised”

Women who experience a concealed pregnancy or birth should not be “pathologised” or criminalised, a leading midwifery lecturer at the University of Limerick (UL) has said.

Dr Sylvia Murphy Tighe, Course Director of Midwifery at UL’s department of nursing and midwifery, who has conducted extensive research into the subject, claimed maternity care guidelines on crisis pregnancies are “out of date” and should be “revised”.