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Charlotte Tonkin Edun
Jul 18, 20247 min read
The birth trauma myth: it's not bad luck, it's not your fault, and it's not fair on any of us
While it is an utter failing of our culture that childbirth is so closely equated with trauma, it is not without basis.
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Charlotte Edun
Oct 8, 20225 min read
There is no alternative? Don't you believe it...
I am - finally - properly back to work this week. I have written a review of a book about maternity activism for AIMS (look out for it in...
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Charlotte Edun
Jun 28, 20224 min read
The repeal of Roe vs Wade: an urgent call to return to the fundamentals of women's right
For most of the last 2 years I’ve been thinking about, reading about, and interrogating the concepts of choice and control in relation to...
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Charlotte Edun
Jun 21, 20222 min read
Why we say 'good birth', and what it means for you
It was way back in 2013 that I briefed this logo to a trusted art director I'd worked with in my previous life. Back then I had a 4 year...
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Charlotte Edun
May 12, 20211 min read
Should your birth preferences really be the 'cherry on the birthing cake'?
The pandemic really laid bare the role that 'woman centered care' plays in the NHS - the institution that most of us have our babies in....
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Charlotte Edun
Mar 29, 20215 min read
Take back your glorious body
At Edun Towers March began – as it did for many mothers – with an excited countdown towards the return to school. March 8th made my...
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Charlotte Edun
Dec 7, 20206 min read
Why is it so hard to believe birth will be ok?
2020 is a shitstorm, so I’m going to offer you the chance to take a moment and rewind to 2010. It was a simpler time. Fewer pandemics,...
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Charlotte Edun
Aug 22, 20193 min read
How this placenta prompted some honesty.
So you don't have to eat it. You don't have to encapsulate it. You don't have to bury it, or paint with it or photograph it. But please. Don
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Charlotte Edun
Aug 13, 20193 min read
What I think about birth should have NO effect on you at all!
This SHOULD be tub-thumping, political stuff. Context is King, and the current context for birth is pretty dire, unless you take matters int
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