Changing the culture of birth

摘要

What makes birth trauma so unique among traumatic experiences is that there are such clear ways to prevent or reduce its impact, if we look only at the care people are offered. Having heard these same stories over the past 10 years, it raises questions for me about why we as a society are accepting how frequently women come out of birth feeling bruised. It's not that birth can be difficult - because we know that people can come out of objectively traumatic experiences without symptoms of PTSD or trauma. In my mind, it's that we are sending many people into maternity systems which are traumatising, This, perhaps, is indicative of how little we value our women, parents and children.