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When birth doesn't go according to plan

I had a C-section after 20 hours of labor and I keep replaying what I could have done differently even though everyone says I should just be grateful for a healthy baby.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The collision between expectation and reality in birth experiences often carries unprocessed grief that gets dismissed by others.

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