A brave mum is raising awareness of birth trauma after suffering a sequence of traumatic and emergency situations, before during and after having her son. Laura-Beth Thompson nearly died during the birth of her son, Theodore.
Her baby boy then became critically ill twice during his first ten weeks of life and was rushed to hospital a number of times. In addition to experiencing serious physical health challenges, Laura-Beth later suffered serious stress, nightmares and terrifying memory flashbacks of the various incidents.
The local councillor from Rossendale, Lancashire, later discovered a condition known as birth trauma. But it was not featured in books about birth or covered in classes. She found a small charity, the Birth Trauma Association, which she says saved her in many ways, LancsLive reports.
