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Traumatic Childbirth: The Ever Widening Ripple Effect

This presentation will address the chronic long-term impact of a traumatic birth on women. First, it will highlight the essential components of what makes a birth traumatic. Next, the series of ripples from birth trauma are described from developing PTSD, to the anniversary of birth trauma, to the impact it has on breastfeeding, to subsequent childbirth following a previous birth trauma. The presentation will conclude on a positive note focusing on posttraumatic growth after a traumatic childbirth.

Presenter: Dr. Cheryl Tatano Beck, DNSc, CNM, FAAN

Dr. Beck is a Distinguished Professor at the University of Connecticut, School of Nursing. She also has a joint appointment in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the School of Medicine. She received her Master’s degree in maternal-newborn nursing and her certificate in nurse-midwifery from Yale University. Her Doctor of Nursing Science degree is from Boston University. She is a fellow in the American Academy of Nursing and is inducted into the Sigma Theta Tau International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame. She was awarded the Marcé Medal by the International Marcé Society for Perinatal Mental Health for the significant contributions of her research program. Over the past 35 years, Cheryl has focused her research efforts on developing a research program on postpartum mood and anxiety disorders. Based on the findings from her series of qualitative studies, Cheryl developed the Postpartum Depression Screening Scale (PDSS). She is a prolific writer who has published over 165 journal articles. She also has published multiple American Journal of Nursing Books of the Year such as Nursing Research: Generating and Assessing Evidence for Nursing Practice and Postpartum Mood and Anxiety Disorders: A Clinician’s Guide. Other books she has written include Traumatic Childbirth, Developing a Program of Research in Nursing, Secondary Qualitative Data Analysis for the Health Sciences, and Introduction to Phenomenology: Focus on Methodology.

Topic: Traumatic Childbirth: The Ever Widening Ripple Effect