Birth Shock Dr. Sally Ernst narrative lens to explore what

narrative lens to explore what people in the past believed and why

bringing folkloric and iconographic evidence to bear on a category of mystery as old as humanity

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affording the reader valuable exposure to a full range of cases

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Birth Shock Dr. Sally Ernst narrative lens to explore whatPerhaps you had a difficult birth. Hopefully, you have a healthy baby. That, after all, is the most important thing. Or is it? So why are you struggling to move on? Why do you keep thinking about the birth or replaying it in your mind? Why do you feel guilty when other people say "at least you have a healthy baby"? In Birth Shock, perinatal clinical psychologist Mia Scotland explains clearly what can be harmful about birth, how birth trauma can affect