NHS Maternity Wards: The World’s Most Exhausted Welcome Wagon
By the time the rest of the planet had finished arguing about whether babies should be delivered by TikTok-influenced doulas or by drones with midwifery certificates, the United Kingdom quietly reminded everyone that it still runs the grandest, crankiest, and most overstretched maternity apparatus in the Western world: the NHS maternity hospital network. Imagine a…