‘Women still face limited options for childbirth’ eight years after maternity strategy launched

Aims Ireland chairwoman Krysia Lynch: 'Despite all the recommendations of our national maternity strategy, women in Ireland are still not presented with adequate choice in our current system.' Picture: Moya Nolan

Women in Ireland still face limited options when giving birth almost nine years after the national maternity strategy was launched, advocates Aims Ireland — the Association for Improvements in the Maternity Services — has claimed.

This follows three maternal deaths last month in Cork, Kerry, and Louth.