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Frankly, I find your lack of compassion to be unusual and extreme. Did you know that an estimated 25 percent of women have one or more symptoms of postpartum PTSD and around 9 percent of women have full blown postpartum PTSD. This is just emotional trauma, not even talking about physical. Would you deny that these women exist? Would you tell them that they are "unusual?" 
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NP. If you're going to ask other posters to provide cites for their statements, you should do the same for yours. Obviously this is anecdotal, but I have 19 friends who had babies in the past two years, and zero of them had PTSD or any ongoing physical issues (probably around 2/3 were vaginal and 1/3 c-section). All were in their 30s. [b]I find your 25% figure difficult to believe. [/b]And pointing out that someone's experience was not the norm does not invalidate it in any way.[/quote]
DP here. I don't find it hard to believe at all. I had nightmares/flashbacks (I'm not sure which, they were intense) for a couple weeks after my DD's birth. When I've told anyone about the birth I always leave out the part about the nightmares. I never even discussed it much with my DH, who was also pretty traumatized at the time. It just feels very private. Luckily I didn't develop full-blown PTSD and I was able to move on.[/quote]

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