Not exact matches
I would love to see a study that compares the rates of
trauma sustained between PLANNED homebirth and PLANNED hospital
birth — I'd be willing to bet that planned homebirth is
actually more likely to be traumatic than planned hospital
birth.
That said, I found that while I was terrified of my own abortion post-birth
trauma, it was
actually much easier and wholly un-traumatic compared to my two
births.
In part one of this
birth trauma in babies blog series I discussed how babies are
actually more alert, cognizant and sensitive than we realize.
When we tell our
birth story to someone who is listening through a filter of their own values (or all too often, their own
birth trauma), we will frequently leave out details that we
actually really need to discuss, but are fearful will be responded to in a way that could result in further strife.