Birth Trauma Association

Welcome To The Birth Trauma Association

The Birth Trauma Association (BTA) supports all women who have had a traumatic birth experience. It is estimated that, in the UK alone, this may result in 10,000 women a year developing Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).

Also, as many as 200,000 more women may feel traumatised by childbirth and develop some of the symptoms of PTSD. The BTA wants women to know that they are not alone. On these pages, we offer emotional and practical support to women and also their families.

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LATEST NEWS
02/09/10	Research study: Childbirth Experiences in First-Time Mothers Would you like to take part in a research study? I am conducting a study at Royal Holloway, University of London, looking at first-time mothers’ experiences of childbirth and their emotional well-being in the first postnatal year. Find out more
27/08/10	New BBC documentary series about pregnancy, lifestyle and health is looking to contact women who had a traumatic birth. If you, or someone you know, would like to find out more please contact Gayl on 020 8563 6914 or email: pregnancy@prospect-uk.com
29/06/10	BTA - Birth Experience Survey - Please Help! We are looking for mums to complete a very brief, literally a couple of minutes, survey about their birth experience. This can be both GOOD and BAD experiences. If you have a spare minute, please can you fill in the survey to help us, we do have an optional prize draw on offer too for £50.00. If you have had more than one child, please feel free to fill the survey in for each of your births. Thank you! http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/YBBGJNS
09/06/10	BTA Committee Member, Rebecca Dickinson will be running the Jane Tomlinson Leeds 10K run on 4th July to raise much needed funds for the BTA. Please sponsor Rebecca via JustGiving at: http://www.justgiving.com/RebeccaDickinson
09/06/10	The BBC are developing a potential programme exploring the topic of Tokophobia - fear of pregnancy and childbirth. We are interested to hear from anyone who is currently struggling with this or has been successful in defeating it. Maybe you are fighting for a C section. Maybe you can't even get to the stage of pregnancy due to fear but desperately want a child. It could be that you have suffered a traumatic birth and are now too scared to go through it all again. Whatever your story I would be very interested to speak with you and any conversations would be treated with the utmost sensitivity and of course at this stage confidentiality. Please contact Naomi at: naomi.harvey@bbc.co.uk
17/05/10	Selina Horsham, a Trainee Clinical Psychologist, is conducting a study into the emotional processing of trauma and exploring the relationship this may have to physical pain and ones identity. If you wish to find out more about the study and take part, please visit the website. You will also be given the chance to win £100 by taking part.
22/03/10	BTA now on JustGiving.com The BTA now have an account with JustGiving.com. Please help us to raise funds by donating online, creating a personal page or by holding a charity event for our organisation. We do not receive any core funding so all donations are gratefully received. Please see our spring newsletter for further information and how your donations could be used. Find us on JustGiving at: www.justgiving.com/birthtraumaassn
22/03/10	Lack of birth choices available to women suffering from tokophobia - A leading women's magazine is looking for case studies to appear in a feature on the lack of birth choices available to women who suffer from tokophobia (a fear of childbirth). They would like to speak to women affected by the condition, particularly those at the extreme end of the spectrum who have such a fear they feel it is actually ruining their lives. Though the magazine is looking for some case studies to be identified, those extreme cases would remain anonymous. For more information or to register an interest, send an email with a brief outline of your story to: elainemc_laren@yahoo.co.uk
22/03/10	BTA Spring Newsletter Our Spring Newsletter is now available to download. Please see the publications page.
08/02/10	The University of Birmingham is undertaking an anonymous survey on Women's Experience of Loss and Trauma during /after Pregnancy and Childbirth. The aim of the research is to look at mothers’ emotional wellbeing after a loss or traumatic birth experience and to look at their feelings about the support that they received. For further information please read the information sheet or go direct to the survey.
29/09/09	BTA Leaflet Translations now online We are pleased to announce that our leaflet, 'Coping with a Difficult Birth and Where to get help' has now been translated into seven other languages. Farsi, Hindi, Marathi, Polish, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. PDFs can be downloaded from our publications page.
10/06/09	We are very pleased to announce that we now have three new committee members. A very warm welcome to Lucy, Rebecca and Sam who now join us - Find out more about our new members.
27/05/09	A text only version of our new leaflet 'Coping with a Difficult Birth and Where to get help' is now available online. Please see our publications page.
	BTA Now on Facebook - The BTA now have a Closed Facebook Group. Join the group here