Nice article. I think you summed up your point with your sentence, "I truly believe that trauma in childbirth is wildly overlooked."

My only other comment regards the use of the term "gaslight," however. This phrase was popularized by a movie with Ingrid Bergman and it actually means a sociopathic act of slowly eroding one or more person's sense of sanity by creating small and incremental changes. In the movie I referenced, the husband of Bergman's character would turn on the gas in the house each day before he left for work so his wife would be slowly poisoned by the fumes. When she complained of her symptoms, her husband told her she was not mentally well. Having said this, I don't get the reference to gaslighting in your headline.