Why birth trauma is unspoken
- most of us don’t even know what we’ve experienced article by Melissa Bruijn

This article was published in the September 2008 issue of the Birth Matters journal, the national journal of the Maternity Coalition of Australia.

It outlines the journey of Birthtalk’s co-founder, Melissa Bruijn, as she moved from trauma through healing, to a new understanding about the nature of Birth Trauma. This article can be highly beneficial for women struggling to understand what is happening to them, and useful for those wanting to express their situation to others, and for partners and family wanting to offer support.

Praise for the article includes:
WOW!!!!!! What an article!!! Thank you so much for sending it on.
It's wonderful...informative...heart warming... inspiring... educational... sincere...
Would it be O.K. for me to send it on to some of my counselling colleagues?
It could give them a lot of insight.
Congratulations Melissa.
Jennie Elston, Counsellor

Click here for a PDF of Why Birth Trauma is Unspoken