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At the British Science Festival in Hull last month, a lecturer in midwifery said ‘You just have to google childbirth and you’re met with a tsunami of horror stories... if you go on to any of the Mumsnet forums there are stories of childbirth... ooh it was terrible, it was a bloodbath... I wouldn’t say social media is leading women to be afraid of childbirth, but it is playing a part.’ Is she right? Jenni spoke to Marie Louise, a midwife who works in Cornwall and posts stories on Instagram as The Modern Midwife and Julie Jomeen, dean of the faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Hull and professor of midwifery.