Birth Stories

My Birth Cost Me Emotionally The four minutes between my baby’s heart rate dropping and him being born changed something in me permanently. Being asked to consent to surgery while…

Although there was definitely out of pocket costs associated with my birth trauma – perinatal psychology, womens physiotherapy for levator avulsion and so on… I feel the biggest cost from…

Birth-related (breastfeeding) trauma cost me so many precious bonding opportunities with my newborn son. It cost me the sleep and rest my body needed in hospital after giving birth. It…

Birth trauma has impacted every facet of my life. I now have additional diagnoses of C-PTSD, anxiety and depression. It has wreaked havoc on my relationships with others, personally and…

My birth trauma cost me far more than a physical injury. It cost me my mental health, with nights spent lying awake replaying the birth in my mind and blaming…

Birth trauma didn’t take my life, but it changed it forever. It cost me the beginning of my daughter’s life. Instead of holding her in my arms after she was…

Birth-related trauma has cost me in ways that are difficult to put into words. To begin with, it nearly cost me my life on October 14th 2022 after the birth…

My story is quite long. Its something i have written down and never really got to share. For me the cost has been emotional, cost to my future and my…