Dispatches investigates overstretched maternity services, which are resulting in new mothers having traumatic births and, at worst, putting lives at risk.

Reporter Tazeen Ahmad goes undercover to film her post-natal treatment following the birth of her second child by caesarean section. She returns to the same NHS hospital in which she underwent a traumatic first birth to see if conditions have improved and film the reality facing mums-to-be in Britain in 2007.

Channel 4: Monday 23 July 2007