内容摘要：The US president did most of the talking, setting out his stance on many subjects including the possibility of a Ukraine deal and the UK's potential agreement with Mauritius over the Chagos Islands.

The US president did most of the talking, setting out his stance on many subjects including the possibility of a Ukraine deal and the UK's potential agreement with Mauritius over the Chagos Islands.

In the report, Ms Clarke and her co-chair Labour MP Rosie Duffield said the inquiry wanted to start a public discussion "on the realities of giving birth and how we can practically improve maternity services" - as well as share the stories and experiences of both mothers and fathers.Another key suggestion was to "provide support for fathers and ensure [a] nominated birth partner is continuously informed and updated during labour and post-delivery".

The report from the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Birth Trauma put forward 12 recommendations in total, including:Since covering the inquiry's findings, BBC News has received dozens of messages from women telling their own traumatic child birth stories.Gill Castle, who suffered extensive injuries when her son Sam was born and needed surgery to have a stoma, told BBC Breakfast "it was no surprise" the inquiry uncovered harrowing stories.

"Part of the reason has been understaffing. Certainly for me when I was on the ward we didn't have enough midwives and it wasn't enabling them to their job," she said.Women's Health Minister

Maria Caulfield apologised when the BBC Radio 4 Today programme played calls from parents detailing their experiences, including one man who's wife survived losing 82% of her blood giving birth.

"Just to apologise for his and his wife's experience and to those of your callers as well," she said. "We do recognise that and that's why over the last few years we've been putting in some of the measures that this report calls for.""There's not a spade in the ground and at the end of the day it's our money that's paying for this."

Northumberland County Council said it would hold a public meeting but, with no date yet announced, parents have organised their own gathering on 7 March.Ms Reilly-Blake said she was worried children would be attending schools which were "just building sites".

"We're talking four or five years of this, and we really really feel they're just laughing at us and that we don't matter, but we mean business," she added.A Northumberland County Council spokesperson said an "enormous amount of work has been done" and parents had been involved "every step of the way".