
One in three women in the modern world describe their birth experience as traumatic.
These are births that are taking place in million-dollar facilities with highly trained professionals, yet something is so broken that most women are walking away heavy-hearted.
So why are so many of us feeling out of control, despite months of emotional and physical preparation?
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Since the birth of my daughter I have, almost obsessively, set out to answer this question.
The adrenalin of her arrival has already started to fade, and I am left with a hollow feeling of disappointment.
I feel like there has been some kind of misunderstanding, that I was handed a birth meant for someone else.
Late at night, as I halfheartedly scroll shopping websites while breastfeeding, my mind wanders back to that day, searching for clues as to where I went wrong.
If this seems like a privileged position to take up, you’re absolutely right.