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
- Emergency c-section
- Episiotomy
- Erb's palsy
- Fenton's procedure
- Forceps
- Fourth-degree tear
- General anaesthetic
- Haematoma
- Healing birth
- Hysterectomy
- Induction
- Infection
- Kidney failure
- Long labour
- Medical negligence
- NICU
- PND
- PPH
- PTSD
- Placenta accreta
- Placenta praevia
- Planned caesarean
- Postpartum haemorrhage
- Pregnancy-related osteoporosis
- Prematurity
- Retained placenta
- SCBU
- Sepsis
- Shoulder dystocia
- Ventouse
- caesarean
- induction
Amira’s story
22 June 2026 is a date I will never forget.
On that day, I underwent sphincter repair surgery to repair injuries caused by a fourth degree tear during the birth of my first child ten years ago.
To many people, it may have sounded like the end of a medical journey.
For me, it was the reopening of a wound that had never truly healed.
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.
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