Maternal Post-Birth Well-being Assessment / Self Assessment / De-briefing

[Julie Doula]

Ryn, I'm so sorry to hear that. What you're feeling is important and valid. You really need to talk it through in order to process it and come to terms with it - and that need is totally normal and healthy. It is your birth right.

In England, Sheila Kitzinger is doing great work around birth trauma. She has just published "Birth Crisis". If you Google "Sheila Kitzinger" and then click on 'Birth Crisis" on her website, you'll find the names and contact details of women in England who are manning a telephone hot-line that women can call in order to receive support and the chance to de-brief. It says,

"Contacting the Birth Crisis Network

If you need to talk about a birth experience which haunts you, do phone one of the following:
If you are not in their region, they may pass you onto someone else in the Birth Crisis Network, not listed here."