Kate’s Story: A Forceps Delivery Devastated By Obstetrical Violence
What do you do when what was supposed to be one of the most memorable days of your life becomes memorable for all the wrong reasons? My daughter's birth broke my heart into a thousand different pieces, and I've spent the last year trying to put it back together....
Kate’s Story: Postpartum Preeclampsia and The Effects of Being Blamed for Your Trauma.
Third Trimester I entered my third trimester in late April 2020, during the first of many Covid surges in my city. Because I was low risk, I was converted to virtual appointments from 28 weeks to 35 weeks. When I presented to the office at week 35, my blood pressure...
Jessica’s Story: Surviving Peripartum Cardiomyopathy
My name is Jessica Grib and I died after delivering my daughter in September 2016. I crashed and coded in the post-op room after my C-section, was given CPR for 10 minutes by several different people, and paddled with electric shock until they brought me back to...
The Birth Trauma Mama
