Lucy Jolin is a freelance journalist specializing in health, parenting, healthy eating and birth issues. She has written for numerous national magazines, newspapers and websites, including the Guardian, New Statesman, Pregnancy, Baby and You, Practice Nursing, NHS Choices and Healthy. She is a former spokesperson for the Birth Trauma Association, and appeared on numerous TV and radio programmes in that role, including Today, the Jeremy Vine Show, Woman's Hour, and BBC Breakfast.