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ARE YOU LOOKING FOR HELP AFTER TRAUMATIC BIRTH?

If you’re a parent who’s been traumatised by birth, we’re here to help. We have
a team of peer supporters:  parents (one of whom is a dad) who have all
experienced traumatic birth themselves and been through a process of recovery.
If you’d like to talk to them over email about your experience, please contact
them at support@birthtraumaassociation.org.uk or phone them on 0203 621 6338.

You can also join our Facebook group for parents with birth
trauma: www.facebook.com/groups/TheBta

We find that parents who come to us often have the same questions, so we’ve
prepared some Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) documents you can download. They
are:

How do I access my birth notes?

How do I access therapy to help me recover from my birth trauma?

How do I ask for a debrief?

How do I make a complaint about my maternity care?

How do I take legal action against the hospital where I gave birth?

I want to avoid another traumatic birth. What can I do and what are my rights?

 


IF YOU'RE A HEALTH PROFESSIONAL

If you want to find out more about birth trauma, our package of three training
videos can help. 




WHAT IS BIRTH TRAUMA?

Birth can be traumatic for all sorts of reasons. It could be that you were left
in pain for hours, or your baby’s heartrate dropped and you needed an emergency
caesarean section. Perhaps you had a difficult forceps birth leaving you with
severe tears. Perhaps you had a postpartum haemorrhage, or your baby was born
ill, needing to spend time in special care.

There may have been times during labour when you felt that staff didn’t look
after you properly, or didn’t listen to you, and you felt alone and frightened.

And afterwards, even your baby is well, those feelings don’t always go away.
Research shows that about 4-5% of women who give birth develop post-traumatic
stress disorder (PTSD), with symptoms such as flashbacks, nightmares and extreme
anxiety that makes daily life immensely challenging. That’s about 30,000 women a
year in the UK. Many more have some trauma symptoms, but not enough for a PTSD
diagnosis. We use the term "birth trauma" to cover everyone who feels that their
traumatic birth is continuing to affect them.

Fathers and partners can develop PTSD as a result of witnessing a traumatic
birth. They need help too.

In the video below, five women talk about their experience of birth trauma and
how they found help.



 
 
 
 
No one ever explained to me what I had gone through in the delivery room and I
still don’t fully understand…
I had problems breastfeeding my baby, I’m convinced this was down to a traumatic
birth, it made me feel a failure as a mum…
Why didn’t anyone explain what they were doing to me and how I would feel
afterwards…
Talking to other mums who knew what I was going through really helped, I wasn't
the only one who felt this way…
I felt so helpless, there was nothing I could do to help my wife, it was out of
my control…
No one ever explained to me what I had gone through in the delivery room and I
still don’t fully understand…
I had problems breastfeeding my baby, I’m convinced this was down to a traumatic
birth, it made me feel a failure as a mum…
Why didn’t anyone explain what they were doing to me and how I would feel
afterwards…
Talking to other mums who knew what I was going through really helped, I wasn't
the only one who felt this way…
I felt so helpless, there was nothing I could do to help my wife, it was out of
my control…
No one ever explained to me what I had gone through in the delivery room and I
still don’t fully understand…
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support group on Facebook

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