Monday, March 31, 2008

Birth Trauma Myths

Joyous Birth - The Australian Homebirth Network:

MYTH 4: Just concentrate on your healthy baby, and get over it, can also be: You’ll forget all about it as soon as you see your baby.

FACT: If you are raped, being given a present at the end of it doesn’t wipe out the rape. It may give you very ambivalent feelings about the gift but it doesn’t somehow cure you of the trauma and to suggest that women are so facile and stupid is offensive indeed. What this usually means is that the person speaking is uncomfortable with the pain they see visible in the woman and wish she would stop making them feel that way.

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