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Pregnancy, Birth and Parenthood after Childhood Sexual Abuse

Pregnancy, Birth and Parenthood after Childhood Sexual Abuse

This resource will help women who have experienced childhood sexual abuse (CSA) to prepare for pregnancy, birth and parenthood.

Access the resource here

The effects of CSA can last a long time and having a baby can be a particularly difficult and lonely time. The resource shares real-life experiences of pregnancy, birth and parenthood and has been created through the collaboration of women who have experienced CSA, midwives and researchers.

This resource was co-produced by the following:

  • Women with lived experience of childhood sexual abuse
  • From King’s College London: Elsa Montgomery, Principal Investigator; Yan-Shing Chang, Lecturer; Anne Youssef, Learning Technologist; Florin Ivan, Learning Technologist
  • From The Survivors Trust: Fay Maxted, CEO, The Survivors Trust; Sarah Cheadle, Communications Officer
  • From other areas: Kathryn Gutteridge, President, Royal College of Midwives; Lucy Duckworth, researcher and member of the Victims and Survivors’ Consultative Panel for the Independent Inquiry into Childhood Sexual Abuse; Julia Seng, Professor of Nursing, Obstetrics and Women’s Studies at the University of Michigan, USA; Jonathan Staples, Jmotion Video Production Company

The development of this resource was funded by a Welcome Trust Engaging Science People Award.

We value your views and feedback about this resource so that we can make it as useful as possible. We would be grateful if you would fill in this survey: Pregnancy, birth and parenthood after childhood sexual abuse online resource feedback form

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