Unfortunately though, you have played down birth trauma.
I would love to process what happened to me and move on, I’ve spent £1000s on therapy that I can’t afford, I’ve been medicated, I’ve taken months off work that I couldn’t afford but couldn’t actually function over and above being a mum. I’ve been offered my birth debrief countless times, but rather than feeling excited like our Ashley I am terrified. Terrified to go back to the labour ward where it happened, terrified of letting loose some of the feelings I have managed to suppress.
I’ve been diagnosed with PTSD, generalised anxiety disorder and depression. There are days when getting out of bed feels like climbing Everest.
I do not wish to feel this way but that is how I have been left.
Ashley downplays birth trauma, around the time of her birth a lot of influencers were claiming it.
Until it happened to me I didn’t know it was even a thing.
There’s a difference between actual birth trauma and what Ashley claims, which for the record I think is just deep seated resentment and regret.