Hospitals are suspending home births and shutting down stand-alone maternity units as the new strain of coronavirus puts the NHS under increasing pressure.
Since the start of the pandemic, home births have provided a solution for women whose hospitals banned them from having their partner at their side during labour.
But now, with the virus rapidly spreading, NHS Trusts across the South East have been cancelling home birth services, leaving mothers-to-be gutted .
It comes after ambulance chiefs warned they could no longer guarantee to respond to women giving birth at home.
Since the start of the pandemic, home births have provided a solution for women whose hospitals banned them from having their partner at their side during labour (file photo)
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