An evening with Leah Hazard

The womb, origin of life and of motherhood. The Scottish writer and midwife Leah Hazard wrote the bestselling book Womb, in which she refutes historical assumptions about the womb and explores future scenarios. Can medical science contribute to motherhood for many? The book forms a conversation starter between Hazard herself and researchers Jolien Gijbels (VUB) and Joz Motmans (UZ Gent). With Heleen De Bruyne as moderator.  

Leah Hazard is a midwife in the UK’s National Health Service, as well as the author of The Father’s Home Birth Handbook, Hard Pushed: A Midwife’s Story (a UK Sunday Times bestseller) and Womb: The Inside Story of Where We All Began (Scottish Book of the Year, New York Times Editors’ Choice). She is an outspoken advocate for reproductive healthcare, appearing regularly in the national and international media, and her next book, Birth Wars (due in 2027), will interrogate the way global maternity care is delivered and experienced in the 21st century. Leah is also a trustee of Amma Birth Companions, an organisation which provides perinatal support to people experiencing social isolation. She lives in Glasgow, Scotland.