Theo Clarke is pleased to announce the Daily Mail's serialising of her upcoming book, Breaking the Taboo. It can be read physically and online. The first section can be read here.
Birth trauma sadly affects far too many women and children - myself amongst them. This is why, after the traumatic birth of my daughter in 2022, I set up the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Birth Trauma on the 12th of July 2023.
`Breaking the Taboo: Why we need to talk about birth trauma' by Theo Clarke (Biteback Publishing, 2025)Top 20 Hardback Non-Fiction BESTSELLER*Shortlisted for Best Non-Fiction at the Westminster Book Awards 2025BUY YOUR COPY HERE.“A shocking book exposing Britain’s maternity crisis.” The Times
Welcome, I am delighted to announce the publishing of Listen to Mums: Ending the Postcode Lottery on Perinatal Care.
The Inquiry's report was launched on the 13th of May 2024 in the Palace of Westminster. This is the culmination of the APPG for Birth Trauma's work over the past nine month
Ms Clarke is an experienced communicator and has dealt with the media on topics as varied as art, birth trauma, and sustainable development. Some of her media appearances can be found here.
Statement from Theo Clarke, former MP and Chair of UK Birth Trauma Inquiry, on Baroness Amos’s recommendation for a national maternity and neonatal commissioner.For good to come, adversity often needs to be faced.In August 2022 with the birth of my daughter Arabella, that moment came for me.
