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

[Julie Doula]

I think I will move this and start a new thread. Thank you for your valuable comments, Karina and Berry. I agree that 3 months after the birth would be a good time to re-visit the Birth Review, and that being listened to, validated and feeling that you are being heard is vital.

I hope that people will feel free to cut and paste this and fill it out and put it in the post as a way to give feedback to careproviders; and take it along to post-natal checks. I'm hoping that if careprovides go, "Where the heck did she get THIS from - it's not one of our official approved documents!?" - maybe they might get the hint. And copy, edit, plagiarise away. Use it in whatever way is helpful, change it to suit yourself. If your careprovider does not provide ways or means for you to de-brief or to screen for PTSD to the degree that your needs are not reasonably met, then feel free to use this - at the very least, it might help open up discussion about your feedback, your experience, and your on-going needs. I hope so anyway.