I want to understand my birth experience.
I'm a parent seeking support and resources.
Navigating the first birthday after birth trauma can be challenging, with unpleasant memories rising up to trigger feelings of grief and symptoms of PTSD.
ABTA Ambassador, Dane Muller, offers a dad’s advice for coping with birth trauma. He encourages birthing partners that have experienced the fear of losing their baby or partner to seek support.
A partner’s experience of birth trauma can often be dismissed in the buzz of the postpartum period. As mum Brittanie explains, trauma is in the eye of the beholder, and childbirth can impact everyone involved very differently.
After falling pregnant easily with IVF, Kylie went on to have a traumatic birth. Here she talks about the profound guilt and judgment she felt when admitting her trauma.
Sara has found hope knowing she is not alone through a Pelvic Organ Prolapse Support group.
Rebecca shares her birth experience and subsequent diagnosis of prolapse and how it has impacted her life.
Danae shares her birth story of unexpectedly giving birth at home and the psychological trauma (PTSD).
Birth Trauma Australia is not able to provide crisis support, we care about your wellbeing. If you need immediate support, please contact one of the services below.
If you are in immediate danger call 000.
13 11 14
24/7 crisis support and suicide prevention.
1300 726 306
Perinatal Anxiety & Depression Australia.
13 92 76
24/7 crisis support for Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander peoples.
