Welcome to the Birthful Podcast. I'm Adriana Lozada and today we'll be talking about healing your birth story.

Birth does its own thing and often it's harder than expected even when the experience matches the birth story. Birth does its own thing, and often it's harder than expected,

even when the experience matches the birth plan. How can you heal? Is there a way to prevent

birth trauma? Pam England is here to tell us more. Stay tuned. This episode of Birthful is brought

to you by Megan Offling, a fabulous birth dula and childbirth

educator in Albuquerque, who is all about offering women the information and support they need to

make their own empowered birth choices. Learn more at Women of Valorbirth.com.

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Hello, mighty parents and parents-to-be.

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and expectful. All right. It is fitting that I am renewing this episode with Pam England

on Healing Your Birth Story this week as Friday is World Maternal Mental Health Awareness Day. The way you birth

significantly impacts the way you step into your new reality as a parent. And with as many as

34% of birthing people reporting their births as traumatic, this is an extremely serious issue.

As an aside, it's really important to note that more often than not, people point to the way

they were treated and cared for as the source of that trauma, not so much the action

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