How does your birth trauma affect you when it’s your child’s birthday? This is a repost of Caroline’s story who first shared it as she approached the first anniversary – her daughter’s first birthday – on 4 February 2020. We feel it’s worth publishing again as many women who have experienced some sort of birth trauma will relate to her feelings.
Read MoreThere’s always two sides to a story. Last week we’ve been reflecting on the different sides of the coin for parents and professionals dealing with Covid restrictions. We’d like to share these words from someone who knows what it’s like on either end: a pregnant midwife.
Read MoreAfter an uneasy road trying to conceive, I finally got a positive test and I couldn’t have been happier. I did not have the smoothest of pregnancies, but luckily I received great care. Until COVID-19 changed everything for us.
Read MoreThis is a story of a positive second birth after earlier trauma. The thing is, I hesitate to use the word ‘positive’ because of the associations I have with it which I found to be quite damaging in my mental preparation for my second birth. In this post I try to explain why.
Read MoreThe pandemic causes a challenge for women giving birth. Reports of birth trauma are on the rise because of this. For Emma, this is the more reason to share a positive birth experience. She had a chance to heal after so much harm.
Read MoreWith partners not allowed to come to scans and live video recordings not being permitted, how can you still make sure that partners feel involved in their baby’s scans? Tracy shares what they came up with at the Royal Berkshire.
Read MorePre-covid it was acknowledged nationally that more work is required around supporting partners, this was an area we were planning to review at Royal Berkshire. However, the Covid 19 pandemic forced us to consider this topic sooner.
Read MoreHayley is a specialist midwife who looks after bereaved parents in the immediacy of their loss. She shares the challenging emotions parents and staff were facing due to Covid-19 restrictions.
Read MoreThe work of Maternity Voices Partnerships (MVP) is all about listening to women and using their feedback to bring positive change in the service. Because of the pandemic, this came to the fore.
Read MoreInevitably coronavirus restrictions have been challenging our hospital trust. But we had a strong focus: we were committed to ensure that mothers could bring a supporter with them when they gave birth.
Read MoreGuest blogger Charley shares her heartbreaking story on losing her baby at 16 weeks. During this time, the doctors were very cold and not empathetic at all. The pain of this experience will never be forgotten.
Read MoreCarys shares bits of the most horrendous period of her life and how her experience led her to a heartfelt mission to screen and improve management of PTSD within the physiotherapy world and beyond.
Read MoreI was born and raised in Sweden, just not treated like a proper Swedish citizen when I gave birth. I’m sharing my story because I want people to be aware of what racism does. I just wish no one goes through what I went through.
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