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, 2022
- 5 min
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, 2022
- 4 min
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, 2022
- 2 min
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, 2021
- 1 min
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, 2021
- 5 min
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, 2020
- 6 min
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, 2019
- 3 min
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, 2019
- 3 min
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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