Talking therapies may be the only "cure", that certainly sounds right to me. However I can't imagine having been raped, assaulted OR traumatised by my birth experience and then wanting to do that talking in the place or with the people where it happened. Perhaps in the last stages of healing, as a final letting go/closure thing, but certainly not in the very first days of the shock. I did not have a remotely traumatic birth experience but have had other traumas in my life and have had a lot of talking to do about them, I can't think of one occasion I wanted to go back to the person/place that was the source of the trauma.
At 11:19 AM +1100 4/2/06, Janet Fraser wrote: >I remember it but I disagree with it entirely. It struck me as no more logical >and useful than the obstetric refusal to offer OFP because a study showing a >crude, almost silly form of it didn't have the desired effect. (10mins a day >on hands and knees rather than the lifestyle operation that is true OFP) >Talking therapies are pretty much the only "cure" for PTSD and that's been >well demonstrated over and over. The one study showing otherwise holds no >weight. >J > >----- Original Message ----- >From: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Mary Murphy >To: <mailto:[email protected]>[email protected] >Sent: Saturday, February 04, 2006 10:58 AM >Subject: RE: [ozmidwifery] Post cs support > >I believe there is some research out there that looked at de-briefing women >after birth, particularly traumatic births. As I remember it, the research >did not show that this debriefing had particularly helpful outcomes. Of >course it is all in the Who, the When and the How. Does anyone remember it? >Mary Murphy > > >Andrea wrote: >Any suggestions. Should all women have a follow up appointment with the >midwife who was at her birth, is this appropriate as they may have been part >of the problem, should all women have a follow up appointment but the woman be >allowed to choose who she wants the appointment with, at what stage would this >be appropriate, 2 weeks, 8 weeks 3 months? How does this fit with the M&CH >nurses who are now involved in the woman's on going care? How does her doctor, >be it her own GP, obst or the one who attended (or not) her birth be involved >in this? > -- Jo Bourne Virtual Artists Pty Ltd -- This mailing list is sponsored by ACE Graphics. Visit <http://www.acegraphics.com.au> to subscribe or unsubscribe.
