When You Shouldn’t Share Your Birth Story With a Pregnant Woman

When You Shouldn’t Share Your Birth Story With a Pregnant Woman. Laboring women need support, not horror stories.

If you’ve ever been pregnant, you’ve heard the horror stories of painful deliveries, epidural mishaps, and awful labor experiences. Some of these stories are solicited, but most of them are shared spontaneously and without provocation.

Don’t get me wrong. Sharing your bad experiences with your provider and birth center or hospital is essential and can improve future women’s outcomes. Birth trauma is very real, and I strongly encourage women to discuss their experiences with people to help them debrief and recuperate.

But the delivery room of your daughter, sister, friend, or cousin is most definitely NOT the place to recount your experiences.

Is my birth story helpful?

Is my birth story hurtful?

Is my birth story true?

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