Failed expectations
I was 31 and am quite short with a petite frame. Pretty uneventful pregnancy apart from having SPD. A note of it was made on my record...
Building an emotional barrier
There is so much stigma around birth trauma and the "women have been giving birth for a millennia, just pull yourself together"...
A sense of failure
Just the thought of possibly sharing my story with you (which I've been quite quiet about) brought me into floods of tears and so I know...
