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
- Blood transfusion
- 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 accreta
- Placenta praevia
- Planned caesarean
- Postpartum haemorrhage
- Prematurity
- Retained placenta
- SCBU
- Sepsis
- Shoulder dystocia
- Ventouse
- caesarean
- induction
Sara’s story
It’s ironic that I was once a lawyer on One Born Every Minute. I watched loads of births; unedited. I looked aghast at the ones that went wrong; the worst of which became my first birth experience: shoulder dystocia. A process not unlike a calf being extracted forcibly from its mother by a strong-armed vet, and with as little dignity.
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