Birth Trauma: Get the Facts
| Â What women say concerning their traumatic birth experience: “I started to feel I was going to die in that room with no-one listening to me.” |
| “I had flashbacks of the final delivery for weeks afterwards and could not stop thinking about it.” |
| “I blamed myself for not having a good birth.” |
| “No one ever explained to me what I had gone through and I still don’t fully understand.” |
| “I still feel bitter, disappointed and yes raped too, to this day.” |
| “Why is it that everyone else had the perfect birth but not me?” |
| What spouses say regarding the traumatic birth: |
| “I felt responsible, that I had somehow let my wife down. I felt terribly guilty that I had not done more.” |
| “They wheeled her away and there was no more comfort I could offer her. It was at this stage that I really panicked.” |
| “Sometimes I feel detached from my daughter, and I’ve even had thoughts of harm to her or myself.” |
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