Claire’s story highlights resilience, the power of informed choices, and the possibility of healing after birth trauma. Her first birth and breastfeeding experience was traumatic, marked by severe illness, sepsis, and spinal headaches, leaving her unable to nurse and leading to PTSD
For the initial couple of hours, and then when I did get time with her, I physically just wasn’t really well enough to get established with her, so for the first, like, 24 hours in hospital, I tried to feed her, like, laying down, because I had some really bad headaches after delivery, and I could only lay down really, so I had a lot of support trying to feed her laying down, but it just wasn’t something that was, like, even on my mind to feed her, and I think because of, like, what happened in delivery and things, I was quite, I was quite hypervigilant, quite worried about feeding her, and quite worried about, like, the The midwives and the health professionals like saying, Oh, she needs a feed, she needs a feed.…read more