Birth Trauma (Birth Trauma Awareness Week 18-24 July 2022)
Birth trauma can happen to up to 30,000 women in the UK a year. That is a lot of birthing people who have experienced their birth in a way anything other than the joyful, exciting event they may have imagined. During labour and birth, if a birthing person feels emotionally or physically unsafe, they are more like to go on and experience birth trauma. An example of feeling emotionally unsafe is not feeling listened to or having their needs and preferences taken into consideration. For others,...