Traumatic Birth and Postnatal Nursing Approaches: A Case Study - Abstract
It is now recognized that a proportion of women may perceive birth as stressful and traumatic. Traumatic birth experience occurs when a woman perceives an actual threat to her own life or her baby during delivery. This article aims to enhance nurses’ understanding in order to deal with woman and her family members who witnessed the birth especially in the post-natal nursing follow-up. This article critically discusses the nursing care and management of people who have traumatic birth experience. A prospective case study design was used to follow one woman who has traumatic birth experience and her family. It followed up pregnancy, postnatal 1st day, 3th day, 3thmonths, 6th months and 10th months. In addition, it is presented information about the consulting model based on cognitive behavioural therapy model has used as a nursing approach at the traumatic birth experience.