Our first Birth Trauma Awareness Week
Our first Birth Trauma Awareness Week took place in 2017, between 14–21 August.
The week brought the subject of postnatal post-traumatic stress disorder out into the open. We gained widespread media attention, and BTA members’ stories featured in outlets such as the BBC and the Guardian. We were also included as a Mumsnet Guest campaign in August.
Extensive media coverage brought thousands of people to the website and hundreds of new members to our Facebook group. Articles by or about our members included:
Birth trauma: Women urged to ‘raise your voices’, BBC, 13 August, 2017
‘I feel a loss for what was supposed to be magical birth experience’, BabyCentre, 14 August, 2017
Severe birth trauma has left me terrified of having another child, The Guardian, 17 August, 2017
I had a shit birth. Here’s Six reasons I really want others to know, HuffPo, 18 August, 2017
Struggling after giving birth? You’re not alone, BBC, 19 August, 2017
I felt like a stranger in my own body, HuffPo, 20 August, 2017
'I would start to act as though I was giving birth again’, Good to Know, 26 August, 2017
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