I think a de-brief should make it clear that it won't affect the stay in hospital - I'd have lied my head off to get out of there. And the PND check mentioned there, it's easy to just give the "correct" answers. I mean, I didn't sleep in hospital because I had a new baby, it was when I was at home and he started sleeping that I had troubles with upset sleep fom nightmares.

I think women should be asked if the midwives/Obs at their birth did anything against their wishes. For me, pushing drugs and not letting me take the monitor off. That can impact this sort of thing and it's not something a mother will feel is her fault IYSWIM. Or if she has been treated with kindness and respect by ALL her carers, even post-natally, not just in the birth.

ETA: Marydean, I agree - having your own mother saying you're being melodramatic when you say you're having problems with not being able to remember those early days with the baby because they've been blanked out, you are having birth nightmares and are still in shock... you need a support network as Berry said and you need a support network that won't just fob you off.