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I too was honoured to go and listen to the wonderful Rhea Dempsey - sadly I didn’t grab a pic with her.
Virginia says this perfectly. The statistics are frightening and bloody real.
As birth workers we see so much in hospital birth units, or we have women approach us for a subsequent birth hoping to avoid these interventions.
Choose your birth team and location wisely, it’s probably the most important step to take regarding the birth of your baby.Yesterday I went up to the Blue Mountains to see this legend Rhea Dempsey @rheadempsey_birthingwisdom speak to doulas about 'Self Care in a Wounding Birth Culture'.(hosted by my midwife @midwifejohunter).

Here's some research she shared with us about this wounding birth culture:
~ Only 1-5% of women birthing in Australia have a completely unmedicalised birth from start to finish! So 95-99% of women are either induced, augmented, have pethidine/morphine, epidurals, ventouse or forceps, episiotomies, and/or managed third stage with synthetic hormones.

And doulas are at the front line bearing witness to many of these interventions done to women. Sometimes these may be necessary to help save the life of mother or baby (and thank goodness for that!), but more often than not they are unnecessary due to impersonal hospital policies and bullying by hospital staff where true informed consent is rare.

(Just this week I witnessed a labouring woman be pressured into a vaginal exam, and after being asked why it hurt so much, the Dr said she gave her a stretch and sweep, then when I called her out on it and said she did not ask or receive permission to do that, the Dr flat out lied and denied that's what she did!).

Here's some more stats:
~ 33-45% of mothers describe their birth as traumatic, and of those 2-9% end up with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).
Fortunately if women feel well cared for (such as having a doula there to make sure her wishes are heard and respected), she is less likely to feel traumatised. But unfortunately we sometimes see the coercion and women being set up to fail, even when the woman in her labouring primal brain cannot.

So it's not surprising that doulas can suffer from trauma too. Rhea gave us some good strategies to help nurture ourselves and diffuse the tension we can carry long after baby has been born.
My homework this week is to get some long needed exercise, and to organise a local doula meet up for more peer support.

#naturalbeginnings #doula #sydneydoula #doulasydney #obstetricviolence #obstetricrape #birthrape #selfcare #selfnurture #support ... See MoreSee Less

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