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
- Bowel incontinence
- Brain injury
- C-section
- Caesarean
- Consent
- Episiotomy
- Erb's palsy
- Fenton's procedure
- Forceps
- Fourth-degree tear
- Haematoma
- Healing birth
- Induction
- Infection
- Kidney failure
- Long labour
- Medical negligence
- NICU
- PND
- PPH
- PTSD
- Planned caesarean
- Postpartum haemorrhage
- Retained placenta
- SCBU
- Sepsis
- Shoulder dystocia
- Ventouse
- caesarean
- induction
Alexandra’s story
In January 2024, I went into triage at 40+6 for my fourth episode of reduced movements since 28 weeks. However, I had a bedside scan in triage and they found I had only the tiniest pocket of fluid left – the rest had gone. This was probably why my daughter was moving considerably less.
Emma’s story
I can’t say being a mother was something I had always dreamed of. There was always a nagging voice in the back of my mind telling me there is no chance I can take care of a child because I can barely take care of myself. Yet there I was, lying on a hospital bed with a midwife’s hand inside me and a thin blue sheet separating me from the other expectant mothers in the room.
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.
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