The Compassionate Truth About When Maternity Care Leaves You Traumatised Birth is often imagined, hoped, and planned to be empowering, transformative, even magical. But for many, birth did not feel empowering. It felt frightening, overwhelming, disempowering. Deeply unsettling long after it is over. If you feel traumatised by your birth experience or by maternity care, know you are not alone, and you are not overreacting. What Is Birth Trauma? Birth trauma (or more appropriately termed...