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Do I Need to ‘Walk On Eggshells’ When Talking About Positive Birth to Traumatised Women? 6 Jun 2012 | 11:05 am
Do women who have had positive, empowering, natural births need to ‘walk on eggshells’ around those who have been traumatised by their births? Are we at Birthtalk.org asking those who feel good about...
Birth Trauma : Does Nature Give a Damn? 14 May 2012 | 02:17 pm
In one of our most popular blogposts, titled “Childbirth – as traumatic as a mid-air QANTAS flight emergency?”, we make the following statement : “Birth can be good. Which can be a hard thing for ...
The Pitfalls of ‘Going With The Flow’ in Birth 26 Mar 2012 | 03:08 pm
So many of us aim to ‘just go with the flow’ as our birthplan. But could the gentle flow of birth we envisage actually be undermined with this approach? Could ‘going with the flow’ even be detrimental...
Gifts of the Healing Journey – a short Christmas message from Birthtalk.org 18 Dec 2011 | 05:34 pm
We would like to just say a quick “Merry Christmas” and thank all of you for joining Birthtalk this year, as we share the truth about traumatic birth. Since this is the season of ‘giving’, we wanted ...
Birthing Again After Traumatic Birth – Emmy’s Story 13 Jul 2011 | 11:30 am
On this blog we deal a lot in the ‘sad truth’ about traumatic birth…but we are pleased to say that there are some ‘happy’ truths out there as well. One of these happy truths is that women who have ha...
Laura Stavoe speaks – why she wrote : “There is a secret in our culture and it is not that birth is painful but that women are strong”. 6 Jun 2011 | 07:11 pm
One year ago, we posted an article to this blog titled, “There is a secret in our culture, but it is not that women are strong. Why some birth quotes may be damaging to women.” We focused specificall...
Women suffering from birth trauma are NOT just being selfish! 6 Nov 2010 | 12:30 pm
Once again, a woman commenting on this blog has expressed views that could be offensive & insensitive to those recovering from the impact of birth. We again considered ignoring the comment, but as we...
When Birth Becomes a Violation 26 Aug 2010 | 01:21 pm
The issue of birth rape is a contentious one in our society, and not one that we approach lightly. We do not use the words ‘birth’ and ‘rape’ together lightly, and we find it a highly emotionally-cha...
There is a secret in our culture, but it is not that women are strong. Why some birth quotes may be damaging to women. 3 Jun 2010 | 01:57 pm
There is a current trend in online social networking sites that cater to birthing women to broadcast empowering quotes about birth. Many of these quotes are wonderful reminders of the power and stren...
Two traumatic births, ten years of silence – why author Emily Woof is a woman wronged. 15 May 2010 | 12:38 am
A few weeks ago, one woman’s birth stories raised the ire – and fear levels - of women in different parts of the world. Things were a-buzz in cyberspace when actor & author Emily Woof’s article title...
