Australia's homebirth network, Joyous Birth has declared 2009 The Year of Birth Trauma Awareness. On birth trauma Joyous Birth says:
Enough is enough.
We will no longer stand by while our sisters, partners, friends and babies are mutilated and traumatised.
The silence ends now.
What can you do to be part of this community effort?
Follow your passion in this three stranded project. We need to talk about:
How to avoid birth trauma.
How to heal from birth trauma.
How to raise awareness about birth trauma.
How to heal from birth trauma.
How to raise awareness about birth trauma.
* put a birth trauma awareness sticker on your car, pram, bicycle helmet, letterbox, gate, fence, front door
* sew a birth trauma awareness patch on your sling or wrap
* put your traumatic birth pics on youtube with appropriate captions raising awareness
* drop off JB pamphlets and info on normal physiological birth to your local medical centre
* tell someone about your birth trauma
* write a letter to your daily, local or national newspaper
* talk to your community group, ABA group, mothers' group however casually you like
* tell your GP if you have one
* tell your natural therapists and give them some JB brochures
* take a few pamphlets everywhere just in case the need arises
* say “Birthrape is real" on mainstream internet forums
* change your sig to something supportive of BTAY on mainstream forums
* put a link to JB on your website, blog, community group website or anywhere else you can
* host a showing of BOBB in your local area and invite the newspapers
* go to anything women-related and talk about birth trauma - WEL, CWA, IWD.....
* do some community-minded graffiti or even a mural!
* write stuff on toilet walls in maternity hospitals
* do some Wiki edits
* put a birth trauma quote in your email sig
* ring the radio when talkback time is on and talk about your experience of traumatic birth
* do an essay at uni about it if you can, or a tutorial presentation
* Join forces! Get involved with your other local homebirth and maternity groups. Volunteer your time, and bounce ideas off others
Birth trauma resources on JB's website: http://www.joyousbirth.info/birthtrauma.html
Birth trauma area on JB's forums: http://www.joyousbirth.info/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=93
A big thank-you to the Joyous Birth community for a terrific list of ideas for how to raise awareness of a very important issue.
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