The Ocean Room a way through trauma

With your help we have gone further still. Now we can offer a non-clinical room on Level 7, specifically for appointments for women who have gone through a traumatic birth, or experienced previous traumatic life events. Previous trauma can impact feelings about pregnancy and upcoming birth. This sometimes results in mental health issues such as post-traumatic stress disorder, severe anxiety and fear of birth.

The Ocean Room aims to provide a safe, welcoming environment to enable women and their birthing partners to feel comfortable enough to express their feelings during a vulnerable time in their lives. A great deal of thought has been given to choosing furnishings, lighting and pictures to promote a sense of privacy and safety.

The room will be also used for the birth reflections service, which is a postnatal debriefing appointment for families who have gone through a traumatic or intense birth experience, and need help to put closure on the experience.