This page lists some online resources that may be helpful to those who have gone through childbirth trauma.
The list is purely informational. What is helpful and what is not will vary from one person to another. Information that is extremely helpful to some women may be distressing to others. And sometimes, it may be both.
Only you can decide for yourself what sources to trust and what advice to follow.
Other websites on birth trauma
www.joyousbirth.info/birthtrauma.html
Information on birth trauma from Australia
www.tabs.org.nz
New Zealand site on traumatic birth and recovery
www.birthtraumaassociation.org.uk
Birth Trauma Association of the UK
birthtraumacanada.org
Birth trauma information from Calgary, Alberta
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Online forums
www.solaceformothers.org
Solace for Mothers, California
www.netmums.com
Net Mums, UK
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Vancouver counseling for birth trauma
www.annedietrich.ca
Dr. Anne Dietrich is a specialist in trauma and PTSD
with experience in birth trauma
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Free iPhone Apps
(available from iTunes store)
PTSD Coach
By the US National Center for PTSD: www.ptsd.va.gov
Helps you learn about the symptoms
that commonly occur after trauma and
how to manage them.
PTSD App
Dictionary of PTSD terminology, definitions,
and therapies
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birthpsychology.com/free-article/psycho-technology-pregnancy-and-labor
The Psycho-Technology of Pregnancy and Labor,
by Thomas Verny
informedparenting.blogspot.com/search/label/Birth%20trauma
Birth Trauma posts from the Informed Parenting Blog
www.birthrites.org
Links and info on recovering from traumatic birth
Other support
www.ican-online.org
International Cesarian Awareness Network. C-section prevention, recovery and advocacy.
postpartum.net
Postpartum Support International
www.eheart.com/cesarean
A site by, for and about those born by a C-section
Informed Consent
www.health.gov.bc.ca/library/publications/year/2011/health-care-providers'-guide-to-consent-to-health-care.pdf
A government directive describing how health care providers should obtain consent before performing medical procedures. Describes Advance Directives (p.16-19), a document that as of Sept 2011 women can use instead a Birth Plan, in order to have a legally binding document as to what they consent to during the birth and what they do not, ahead of time.
www.health.gov.bc.ca/hcc/advance-care-planning.html
Describes in more details Advance Directives and gives an optional form that can be used. The form is on p.50-51 in the following PDF:
www.health.gov.bc.ca/library/publications/year/2012/MyVoice-AdvanceCarePlanningGuide.pdf
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Traditional birth attendants in BCwww.glorialemay.com
Gloria Lemay's website www.morekajolar.com
Moreka Jolar's website
Other resourceswww.scienceandsensibility.org
A Research Blog About Pregnancy and Birth
www.childbirthconnection.org
www.theunnecesarean.com
www.midwiferytoday.com
myobsaidwhat.com
My OB said WHAT?!?
www.sheilakitzinger.com
squatbirthjournal.blogspot.com
The Squat Birth Journal
A radical midwifery birth magazine
www.motherfriendly.org
Coallition for Improving Maternity Services
and the Mother-Friendly Childbirth Initiative (MFCI)
www.birthworks.org rixarixa.blogspot.com
Reflections on pregnancy, birth, and mothering
A blog by Rixa Freeze www.primalhealthresearch.com
Michael Odent's website
The effects of primal period (fetal life, perinatal period and year following birth) on health and personality traits in later life. Bornfree: Unassisted Childbirth in North America
A PhD Dissertation by Rixa Freeze fullmoonsdaughter.com birthofanewearth.blogspot.com
Support Groups outside of BC
www.birthstars.org
Birth Trauma support group in Ottawa
www.bigbellyservices.com/birth trauma support group.htm
Birth Trauma support group in Seattle
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Statistics and research studieswww.hospitalreportcards.ca
Hospital reports from the Fraser Institute
(including C-section and VBAC) for each hospital www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/publicat/2008/cphr-rspc/pdf/cphr-rspc08-eng.pdf
Canadian Perinatal Health Report 2008
Public Health Agency of Canada https://secure.cihi.ca/estore/productSeries.htm?pc=PCC226
Giving Birth in Canada - Reports
from the Canadian Insitute of Health Information (CIHI)
www.publicaffairs.ubc.ca/2010/05/31/regional-differences-in-c-section-rate-not-a-result-of-maternal-request-ubc-study
UBC C-section study
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Advocacy and Birth Activism
www.aimsusa.org/laws.htm
Working with Other Consumer Groups to Get a Bill Enacted into Law
www.aimsusa.org/ppbr.htm
The pregnant patient bill of rights
www.motherfriendly.org
Coalition for Improving Maternity Serivces (CIMS)
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