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
Tiffany’s story
I'm Tiffany, and I'm 30 years old. I had my first child at 20 and my second at 23. Before having my children I had classic IBS symptoms and I'd have times where I'd get overheated and feel faint and knew that I had to get to the loo. I had my firstborn age 20. The birth was quick, and I was in shock. I was young, scared and had no idea what to do.
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.
Jacqueline’s story
I went into hospital for a growth scan – all normal. During this appointment they took my blood pressure as it had been high at my last few midwife appointments.
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