Birth Club: January 2008Created By nifagurgleEditor on 04 June 2008

Hi everyone,

I hope you don't mind me joining your group. My name is Suzanne and I'm an expectant mum and full-time research psychologist working in the UK. I'm hoping you will share your memories for your most recent birth experience by taking part in some research I'm undertaking looking at memory for childbirth.

I am conducting the research study at Sussex University with the help of Dr Susan Ayers who is a very experienced researcher in the area of postnatal psychological distress in this country. The current research investigates women's general memory, their memories of childbirth, and how these may (or may not) be associated with post natal psychological distress. This type of research can contribute enormously to our understanding of birth related psychological distress, so your help would really be appreciated.

If you have given birth within the past year, I hope you might be willing to take part and will find the questionnaire interesting. Once you click on the link below, you will be asked to download an application - please rest assured this is not harmful to your computer and is safe to download. The application can be automatically removed from your computer once the study is completed. The questionnaire should take approximately 20 minutes to complete.

For further information and to take part, please go to:

http://139.184.162.156/memory_and_birth_study.htm

If you would like a summary of results from this research, once it is completed, please contact me on my email address listed below. Or if you would like further information before taking part in the study, please also feel free to email me.

Thank you so much for your time.

Suzanne Foley
Psychology Department
University of Sussex
s.foley@sussex.ac.uk

Hi, I'm a first time expectant mum (24 weeks today!) I'm also a research psychologist very appropriately investigating postnatal wellbeing! I work at the Univerisity of Sussex and I'm currently running an online study looking at women's memories of the birth experience, so if you fancy taking part please click on the link below or copy it into your browser.

http://139.184.162.156/memory_and_birth_study.htm

I've had approx 50 women participate so far & they have all said they enjoyed doing it & felt it was a great opportunity to put the events of the birth into perspective. I need approx another 450 women to take part, so please please please help me out. If you want to check out my research profile to confirm this is a legitimate study please either google me (search for Suzanne Foley, University of Sussex) or look me up on the University website:

http://www.sussex.ac.uk/psychology/profile195907.html

Any questions, please email me s.foley@sussex.ac.uk

Thank you!!!

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my little angel cailyn is 19 weeks old. she is a very happy and content baby and has always slept well through the night. she has been in a good routine for months, bath, story, then her last feed at about 9:30pm. not waking up till 6/7am. then in the last week she has woke up nearly every night needing a feed, i have not done this since she was 4 weeks old. has any one got any idea why she would change her pattern.