I was sat with a client a while back, and I was trying to find a metaphor to explain that just because you’ve got a healthy baby, that doesn’t mean that you can’t be upset about your birth. I usually use the example “if you had been mugged and punched to the ground, but they […]
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I heard an obstetrician say that she is struggling to “debrief” all the women on postnatal ward whose care she was involved in, but she is trying her hardest. Not all wards have an obstetrician who will give over her time to sit with each and every woman on that ward to talk through her […]
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I had been invited to attend a meeting of academics at Nottingham University. I do not to consider myself an academic, but because the subject of the meeting was going to include a discussion about including men in the their partners pregnancy I chose to attend. The gathering was very engaging indeed and I was enjoying […]
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