A husband is claiming the costs of surrogacy in a High Court action following the death of his wife from cervical cancer.
Padraig Creaven wants to honour the wish of himself and his late wife Aoife to have a child, the court heard.
His case against the HSE, three laboratories and a hospital centres on alleged misinterpretation of his wifeâs cervical smear in 2011 taken under the CervicalCheck national screening programme. All the claims are denied.
Aoife Mitchell Creaven was about 20 weeks pregnant through IVF in 2014 when she found out she had terminal cervical cancer and her life expectancy was limited. She had to travel to London to have the much-wanted pregnancy terminated as chemotherapy was the only option.
The impact of COVID-19 on maternity care
To explore the impact of COVID-19 on maternity care, Prof. Valerie Smith and colleagues in the School of Nursing and Midwifery evaluated both clinical and experiential outcomes in a two-phase study at one hospital site in Ireland.
Prof. Valerie Smith, Dr Sunita Panda, Dr Deirdre O’Malley: School of Nursing and Midwifery, TCD
Ms Paula Barry, Ms Nora Vallejo: Coombe Women and Infants University Hospital
Funding: Trinity College Dublin’s Office of the Dean of Research COVID-19 Response Fund
Background In March of 2020, the first of a series of national lockdowns was implemented in Ireland as a means of reducing the community spread of COVID-19. This resulted in changes to maternity care practices that had the potential to impact on the clinical and experiential outcomes of women accessing maternity care during this time. Some of these changes included policies of restrictive visiting (e.g. one designated parent for babies in t
A MAN wants to honour a wish he and his deceased wife had, which was to have a child, and he is claiming the costs of surrogacy in a High Court action following her death from cervical cancer.
Nicky at her fitness studio in Naas
However its effects don’t stop there. Dyspareunia, or painful sex, is something many women with endometriosis live with and is a deeply personal topic, but Nicky wants others to understand the far-reaching complexities of the disorder.
“It’s very disheartening and you can feel very unwomanly. How can you be sexy when he sees your ‘endo belly’, when it’s swollen and bloated? As someone who has always enjoyed sex, when you start to bleed during and after intercourse and pain can last for days afterwards well, it can be nerve-wracking, as you don’t know if it’s going to hurt. But nobody ever told me that that wasn’t normal.