Yep, there are some real birth trauma stories that should be talked about not swept under the rug

Kudos to her for talking about it openly and helping raise awareness. Not everyone has a smooth easy birth, credit to Carrie for getting the help she needed to help overcome her fear and give birth a second time around

It’s scary! Childbirth is not easy and complications can happen. This can give the mother PTSD of having another baby. I even experienced it too.

Good on her for seeking help and not trying to do it all alone.

What a great woman being a mum is hard work!

She’s such a lovely person.

Attending the antenatal classes put a lot of fear in me about giving birth.

Anxiety around pregnancy and birth is absolutely real for many depending on their experience.

Wow very lucky she was ok

The more we educate each other the better informed we are which hopefully encourages mothers to speak up about post partum concern, no matter how big or small

Yep, birth can be pretty traumatic. Glad everything worked out ok

Good that she and her partner can be open about their issues and seek help. It’s just as going to the dentist or Gp indeed and makes it so much easier to deal with.

The more we speak about these things the more “normal” they become, the less taboo they become and the easier to take yourself to get the help you need because of the stigma going away

Speaking out and getting help is the best thing to do and it not only raises awareness,m it also helps to get it all out. I wish her all the best

Great she got help.

Glad she got the help and support she needed. Hopefully her speaking on this will help others

That is why Mums are so brave that even after going through a near death experience she decided to have more kids, because mother love is above all the fears.

Oh goodness it’s something we don’t think bout

So good she managed to get help and the way she is dealing with it and the other problems she has had is a wonderful role model for so many others. Good on you Carrie.

I haemorrhaged a few hours after giving birth to my second. My husband had already taken our son home for the night so I was alone (with medical staff). It was terrifying and I thought I was going to die and all I could do was try to focus on my newborn baby in the hospital cot near me as I was going in and out of consciousness. It is funny that my husband often forgets it even happened because he wasn’t actually there, I’ve never really explained to him how traumatic it was and how I was so sure that I wasn’t going to make it. We were never planning to have a third child but that moment makes that choice even easier.

Oh I thought this was going to say during giving birth, not 10 days after giving birth. That would make it more frightening I think as you’re not distracted by the painful labour and meeting your baby. Very scary either way.