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
Olivia’s story
When people hear the term PTSD, they think of a mental health condition that soldiers suffer after witnessing horrors of war. No one really believes that it can happen to a woman following the birth of her baby. Birth is supposed to be a glorious, life-changing event when precious memories are created that will be cherished of the rest of the woman’s life. But that wasn’t the case for me.
Ella’s story
It’s all very blurry and I missed out on bonding with my baby. For weeks after the birth I didn’t believe he was mine or that he had a name.
Bethany’s story
The next time somebody tells you that their baby's birth didn't go to plan, empathise and support her, because just because her baby is OK, that doesn’t mean she is.
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Zoom drop-ins
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