Birth Trauma
Community-Based Doula Support: A qualitative study at Valley Medical Center in South King County, WA
By: Sarah Davis, MA-MCHS
Read MoreBringing DEIB to Birth Trauma Prevention Work
By Dominique Vincent
How to Bring DEIB into your birth trauma prevention practice.
A Doula POV: 5 Helpful Tips to Prevent/Minimize Pregnancy and Birth Trauma
By Cheryl Chan
There are many ways to prevent birth trauma. Here are the top 5 tips from a seasoned doula.
Read MoreBirth Experiences Matter
By Muna Bashir
How do your clients feel when you interact with them?
Answer/No
Poem by Suzanne Swanson from What Other Worlds: Postpartum Poems, Ytterli Press, 2013.
Read MoreLiving Through Traumatic Birth: Loss, Grief, and Recovery
By Katie Rohs, Doula, former PATTCh Board Member. How has traumatic birth impacted your life? An easier question to answer might be “how hasn’t traumatic birth impacted my life”.
Read MorePSI Address Penny Simkin (2011)
A task for new mothers is to put their birth experience into words – to make sense of it, to figure out what happened. It’s often a painful struggle, comes out “in pieces”, and they feel frustrated that they keep talking in circles.
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