{"id":1967,"date":"2021-07-21T13:04:10","date_gmt":"2021-07-21T13:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.mutusystem.com\/en-uk\/?p=1967"},"modified":"2023-12-09T22:23:54","modified_gmt":"2023-12-09T22:23:54","slug":"birth-experience-when-you-feel-shame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mutusystem.com\/en-uk\/c-section\/birth-experience-when-you-feel-shame\/","title":{"rendered":"Birth Experience Feelings of Shame or Failure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Feelings of shame or failure following a birth experience remain all too common. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
We plan for our birth experience, reading everything we can get our hands on to prepare. We picture who will be by our side, how we will cope, what support we would like and we feel fearful, excited or both.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For many of us, birth experience reality doesn\u2019t go as planned, and emergency medical intervention, including c-section, are common. Many c-sections are planned and positively chosen and for some, even emergency intervention is simply welcomed and gratefully accepted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But others feel failure or shame around their birth experience and imagined inability to \u2018perform\u2019 at labour and childbirth in the way they expected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Neither of my birth experiences turned out at all the way I had planned. I was a strong 34-year-old personal trainer when I gave birth to my daughter in 2005. The final hours of a 28-hour labour involved emergency medical intervention, which left me fading in and out of consciousness, haemorrhaging. I was told that the surgeon had been \u2018up to his elbows\u2019 in my body and in my blood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n