{"id":359652,"date":"2026-07-09T10:00:39","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T09:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/the-ethnicity-pain-gap-it-was-excruciating\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T10:00:39","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T09:00:39","slug":"the-ethnicity-pain-gap-it-was-excruciating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/the-ethnicity-pain-gap-it-was-excruciating\/","title":{"rendered":"The ethnicity pain gap: it was &#8216;excruciating&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i4.ytimg.com\/vi\/KHfOXHRw6dI\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"The ethnicity pain gap: it was 'excruciating'\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KHfOXHRw6dI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Julie Hammond, a 35-year-old GP from Kent, believes that the \u201cexcruciating\u201d pain she experienced during the birth of her second child was not well managed by the medical professionals caring for her.<br \/>\nSubscribe \u25ba https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/guardianwires?sub_confirmation=1<\/p>\n<p>After a difficult vaginal birth for her first child, her second was delivered by emergency caesarean at 35 weeks. Hammond was administered a spinal block, but remembers that at the time, she was still able to move her legs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mentioned this to my anaesthetist at the time, who told me not to worry, and just to relax,\u201d she says. \u201cI definitely felt like I was being dismissed.\u201d No changes were made to the amount of anaesthetic Hammond received.<\/p>\n<p>Her story is unfortunately not an isolated case. A Guardian investigation has found women from minority ethnic backgrounds are less likely to receive adequate pain relief during labour compared with their white counterparts, building on a growing body of evidence that shows an \u201cethnicity pain gap\u201d in how pain experienced by people of colour is minimised and left untreated.<\/p>\n<p>#ethnicitypaingap #paingapp #pregnancy #childbirth #pain<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Julie Hammond, a 35-year-old GP from Kent, believes that the \u201cexcruciating\u201d pain she experienced during the birth of her second child was not well managed by the medical professionals caring for her. Subscribe \u25ba https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/guardianwires?sub_confirmation=1 After a difficult vaginal birth for her first child, her second was delivered by emergency caesarean at 35 weeks. 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