Cheryl Tatano Beck, DNSc, CNM, FAAN, is Professor of Nursing, University of Connecticut School of Nursing, Storrs.
Accepted for publication September 18, 2003.
The author thanks Sue Watson, the Chairperson of Trauma and Birth Stress (TABS), a charitable trust in New Zealand, for her unwavering support and enthusiastic assistance with this research project. Without her help, this research study would never have come to fruition. To all the courageous women who shared their most personal and powerful stories of birth trauma, the author is forever indebted.
Corresponding author: Cheryl Tatano Beck, DNSc, CNM, FAAN, University of Connecticut, School of Nursing, 231 Glenbrook Road, Storrs, CT 06269-2026 (e-mail: [email protected]).