Birth Trauma Awareness Week - A birth story with Steven Kennedy, founder of Birthing Dads

Birth Trauma Awareness Week 2020 runs from 7-13th September. Throughout the week, tune in to insightful, thought-provoking and deeply honouring stories and discussions with people who have experienced birth trauma, clinicians and researchers in this area and maternity advocates working to change the system. In this episode, Oni Blecher speaks with founder of Birthing Dads founder Steven Kennedy. After a traumatic birth experience and subsequent postpartum depression, Steven explored and investigated his own experience and the wider culture's attitudes toward fathers and birth partners within the pregnancy, birth and postpartum realms. Through his journey proessing his own trauma, Steven now seeks to support men, birth partners and birth support in educating and preparing themselves for pregnancy, birth and beyond ! In this interview, Steven shares personally from his experience and speaks about the more vulnerable and tender times during his early parenting journey. Steven also shares his visions for the future and his work in changing a dysfunctional system.