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Louise Thompson: Maternity care is bleak! Mental and physical scars of my traumatic birth
So everything has had to be so considered and like slow and delicate.
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Louise Thompson: Maternity care is bleak! Mental and physical scars of my traumatic birth
And we got there.
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Louise Thompson: Maternity care is bleak! Mental and physical scars of my traumatic birth
And then, yeah, I did a cycle and I was very scared because I wouldn't, it feels odd to choose, you know, to pay anything.
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Louise Thompson: Maternity care is bleak! Mental and physical scars of my traumatic birth
To have the procedure done and everything else has been, you know, on the NHS and not by choice.
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Louise Thompson: Maternity care is bleak! Mental and physical scars of my traumatic birth
And so, you know, even Ryan has thought like, but why would I don't want to see you in a hospital gown for any reason, like even if you are in control.
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Louise Thompson: Maternity care is bleak! Mental and physical scars of my traumatic birth
Yeah.
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Louise Thompson: Maternity care is bleak! Mental and physical scars of my traumatic birth
And I did it.
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Louise Thompson: Maternity care is bleak! Mental and physical scars of my traumatic birth
And it was at a time when I was, yeah, I think I mentioned I was really busy, kind of at the end of last year.
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Louise Thompson: Maternity care is bleak! Mental and physical scars of my traumatic birth
And so it kind of breezed through it, actually.
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Louise Thompson: Maternity care is bleak! Mental and physical scars of my traumatic birth
And I'll be honest, I thought that it was fine.
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Louise Thompson: Maternity care is bleak! Mental and physical scars of my traumatic birth
And I thought that it was easy compared to some of the other things that I'd been through.
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Louise Thompson: Maternity care is bleak! Mental and physical scars of my traumatic birth
And...
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Louise Thompson: Maternity care is bleak! Mental and physical scars of my traumatic birth
I then felt really confident this year going into another cycle because we didn't get the results that we wanted.
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Louise Thompson: Maternity care is bleak! Mental and physical scars of my traumatic birth
But I was like, oh, maybe I'm just like lucky.
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Louise Thompson: Maternity care is bleak! Mental and physical scars of my traumatic birth
And I just I sort of haven't found it that tough with all the hormones.
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Louise Thompson: Maternity care is bleak! Mental and physical scars of my traumatic birth
And then I did another one this year and it was it served me all of the worst things that you can go through in terms of feeling really like up and down and weak emotionally.
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Louise Thompson: Maternity care is bleak! Mental and physical scars of my traumatic birth
and emotional, and the emotions are irrational.
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Louise Thompson: Maternity care is bleak! Mental and physical scars of my traumatic birth
You know, you kind of like have these little conversations in your head or like with the monkey in the shop, you're like, I don't think this is me.
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Louise Thompson: Maternity care is bleak! Mental and physical scars of my traumatic birth
But something's, there's some fire coming out of me right now and I'm like calling people that work in the clinic at like ungodly times of the day being like seeking reassurance, like secretly, like a kind of addiction.
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Louise Thompson: Maternity care is bleak! Mental and physical scars of my traumatic birth
So, yeah, that's kind of where we're at with that and we'll see what happens.