A Healthy Baby Doesn’t Mean the Birth Wasn’t Traumatic: What New Research Shows
When women and their doctors or midwives were asked about the same births, a third of the traumatic ones were missed. Alexia Leachman on what new research shows…
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Author: Alexia Leachman
Alexia Leachman has specialised in tokophobia and reproductive anxiety since 2015, and has personal experience of tokophobia. She is the founder of Fear Free Childbirth and hosts its podcast. She developed the Head Trash Clearance Method, which she uses in her work with women and teaches to perinatal professionals. She is the author of Fearless Birthing and Betrayed By Your Biology and a contributor to Childbirth, Midwifery and the Media.
What Happened to Having Babies? Fertility, Fear and the Rabbit Hole
The falling fertility rate gets put down to money, housing and work. Alexia Leachman asks where fear of pregnancy and birth fits, and what the data can show.
Thousands of Mothers May Be Living With Undiagnosed PTSD After Childbirth
GPs have no agreed way to spot PTSD after birth, and thousands of women a year may be missed. Alexia Leachman on the new research, and why a…
What Happened to Birth? The Statistic That Sent Me Down a Rabbit Hole
What ten years of UK maternity statistics show about birth: mortality, postnatal depression, birth trauma, induction, and how to keep your agency in it.
Induction and Birth Trauma: What a New Study Found
A French study found about one in ten women had PTSD symptoms two months after an induced vaginal birth. Alexia Leachman on what that does and doesn't mean,…
Fear Free Childbirth Is Growing Up: Why My Voice Isn’t Enough
Ten years on, Fear Free Childbirth is growing up into a publication for reproductive fear, anxiety and trauma, with room for far more voices than mine.