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Trigger Warning: This birth story involves birth infant birth injury, NICU and severe pre-eclampsia. If you are triggered by these topics you may wish to skip this blog or read it…
Stefanie shares her experience of birth injury from a forceps delivery and the mental health impacts.
Vanessa shares her experience of postnatal psychosis and how her stay in a mother and baby unit saved her life.
Amanda shares her experience of an unmedicated vaginal delivery as a first time mum.
Kate shares her experience of a positive planned caesarean for a high-risk pregnancy with twins after a traumatic first birth.
Kate shares her experience of an instrumental delivery (forceps) that left her with bilateral levator avulsion and pudendal neuralgia.
Leanne shares her experience of an undiagnosed third degree tear and the long road she has taken that has left her with the attitude there is always hope.
Kat shares her experience of vaginal birth after prolapse.
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