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Traumatic birth
Definition
From:
NICE Guideline CG192 - Antenatal and postnatal mental health: clinical management and service guidance
This includes births, whether preterm or full term, which are physically traumatic (for example, instrumental or assisted deliveries or emergency caesarean sections, severe perineal tears, postpartum haemorrhage) and births that are experienced as traumatic, even when the delivery is obstetrically straightforward.
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