Women’s Experiences of Birth Trauma and Postpartum Mental Health

摘要: Approximately a third of childbearing women report their birth experience as traumatic (Ford, Ayers, & Bradley, 2010). This is subjective and what qualifies trauma varies among the who it. Research surrounding primarily quantitative in nature does not fully address personal emotional trauma. The goal this study was to examine thoughts experiences self-identified having birth. Qualitative interviews were conducted with nine reported at least one child traumatic. Interviews focused on participants’ stories, feelings labor, postpartum. Several themes identified, such as: physical events control, during relationship interaction medical staff, postpartum experiences. suggests that interactions between staff well type follow up care received has an impact both perception recovery from While research exploratory nature, it holds implications for social work practice identifies areas future research.