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Jackie Baxter

Lead Midwife for Clinical Governance, St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London

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An exploration of reasons why some women may leave the birth experience with emotional distress

Women use different terms to describe distress in relation to a poor childbirth experience Whereas some women consider it as having been negative, others feel their birth was traumatic (Creedy et al,...

Postnatal debriefing: women's need to talk after birth

A Cochrane review of debr iefing interventions for the prevention of psychological trauma in women following childbirth was published in 2015 (Bastos et al, 2015) Seven trials were included in the...

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