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If we like your idea, we will ask you to write 800 words max, following the Maternity Matters guidelines, which we will send to you. Currently, we are open to submissions covering the following topics:
pregnancy
pregnancy related conditions
chidbirth
birth trauma
PND/ PTSD
parenting issues related to birth
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Hi I have been sent your website and would really like to contribute. My idea is about my birth experience with my first child – while it wasn’t tramautic in the medical sense (thankfully), I had a really horrible experience as my birth plan wasn’t followed and I wasn’t given an epidural until I was 8 cm despite having begged for it all night. I haven’t ever written about it, but would like to share my experience as I believe that many women are too tied to an experience that they never get and it can really affect them for years to come!
Hi, I’d love to write for you- I would cover my birth experience which I found extremely traumatic and how this has contributed heavily (in my opinion) towards my PND.
I opted for a water birth with no intervention, but ended up with a forceps delivery after 36 hours of labour… The worst part being I’d been told I was going to theatre for a C-section, only to have everything change at the last minute.
I’m still suffering physically and emotionally 14 weeks on and would love to share my story as I do believe that when things like this happen women aren’t encouraged to open up about it as they have their new baby and society dictates that that should be the end of any bad feelings towards labour and pregnancy. Sadly this isn’t the case.