Up to 45% of new mothers report birth-related trauma. This month, in the lead up to Perinatal Mental Health Awareness Week, read about Hayley’s experience with birth trauma and how she found healing.

A few days before I had my second baby, I felt the end edging closer. We were about to go from three to four, and I didn’t know what was to come. I found myself clinging to the way things had been. I savoured the last drops of what almost five years of just us had been, during its high points.