Birth trauma stories
If you’ve been through a traumatic birth, it can help to read other people’s stories. Over the past few years, many women, and a few men, have kindly shared their stories with us.
Category
- Birth injury
- Bowel incontinence
- Bowel malrotation
- Brain injury
- C-section
- Caesarean
- Consent
- Episiotomy
- Erb's palsy
- Fenton's procedure
- Forceps
- Fourth-degree tear
- General anaesthetic
- Haematoma
- Healing birth
- Induction
- Infection
- Kidney failure
- Long labour
- Medical negligence
- NICU
- PND
- PPH
- PTSD
- Placenta praevia
- Planned caesarean
- Postpartum haemorrhage
- Prematurity
- Retained placenta
- SCBU
- Sepsis
- Shoulder dystocia
- Ventouse
- caesarean
- induction
Ash’s story
I sat in my London City office, late in my twenty-third week of pregnancy, with a dull ache in my back. The pains were light—moderate at most. But as the day wore on, I noticed they were coming at regular intervals. Not just regular—they were coming in waves. By nightfall, the discomfort had wrapped around from my back to my front. Contractions.
Alexandra’s story
In January 2024, I went into triage at 40+6 for my fourth episode of reduced movements since 28 weeks. However, I had a bedside scan in triage and they found I had only the tiniest pocket of fluid left – the rest had gone. This was probably why my daughter was moving considerably less.
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