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[quote=Anonymous]If you engage in the various forums that support women who have experienced traumatic birth, you will find many who pursued all natural births with no interventions.  You will find others who were subject to forceps, episiotomy, ventouse, etc.  The argument that interventions lead you to ruin is one I have repeatedly heard from midwives.  My point in earlier posts is simple - natural childbirth is not by any means risk free to the mother, particularly when we consider her long-term well being.

One other thing I wanted to address - a PP read my story and said something to the effect of "I've never heard of this happening!"  Most women who have traumatic births also feel that way.  And then suddenly, stories come out of the woodwork.  if you ever had a miscarriage, it felt very similar.  There are things that even in this day and age people don't want to discuss.  And the damage from childbirth that women have isn't just a missing muscle or a scar, it directly impacts our sexuality, our identity, our continence, our ability to do basic things.

Here is some information on trauma -  a new book on Childbirth Trauma not only gives you lots of information, but for those of us who are injured, the names of new emerging leaders in the field

https://books.google.com/books?id=2qTCDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA216&lpg=PA216&dq=levator+avulsion+studies&source=bl&ots=hluhlCXYda&sig=xL5bACkGsbHZcA6sfujReDM5_Fo&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjE-8frmbLXAhXEbiYKHQWdDbgQ6AEIYTAJ#v=onepage&q=levator%20avulsion%20studies&f=false

The webpage of Dr. Dietz in Sydney who has a team of wonderful people working with him
http://sydney.edu.au/medicine/nepean/research/obstetrics/pelvic-floor-assessment/Pelvic_Floor_Assessment/About_Me.html

Case study - a woman who has difficulty evacuating because of her injuries -- and because nobody has acknowledged them for 13 years - written by a PT
http://suecroftphysiotherapist.com.au/media-articles/publications/complex-bowel-issues/#.WgSrA__ty9I

Not a study, but a good description, also references the work of Dietz and John De Lancey in this area, written by same PT
https://suecroftphysiotherapistblog.wordpress.com/2013/03/02/levator-avulsion-simply-explained/

A one-woman crusade to bring awareness to prolapse.
http://www.pelvicorganprolapsesupport.org/sherrie-palm/

And lastly, you will find in old medical books that google had digitized tons of info about avulsion from medical texts dating from the 1880s through about 1920.  Then it disappears.
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