Not exact matches
Your midwife's advice to remember that your goal wasn't to relax your uterus is great, and something I wish I'd have kept in mind during my last
birth when things
felt out of control.
A mom, for example, who's very anxious about a past emergency or planned vaginal
birth that did not work
out, is extremely afraid
of vaginal
birth, or has a history
of unresolved sexual abuse trauma can
feel reassured by her perceived sense
of predictability and
controlled surgical procedure in having a C - section.
You may be experiencing a perinatal mood and anxiety disorders if you are
feeling anxious, empty, irritable and angry, or
out of control following the
birth of a child.
My Dr. put me on
birth control pills at my request because I
felt like my hormones were
out of control.
In a meta - ethnography
of 10 studies, women with PTSD were more likely to describe their
births negatively if they
felt «invisible and
out of control» (Elmir, Schmied, Wilkes, & Jackson, 2010).
A
birth is defined as traumatic if the woman was or believed she or her baby was in danger
of injury or death, and she
felt helpless,
out of control, or alone, and can occur at any point in labor and
birth (Beck, 2004a).
When women
feel out of control and powerless, their perception
of birth can be traumatic.
Since it was
out of his jurisdiction, he couldn't officially say the continuous
birth control would positively influence my mood, but he had a
feeling it might.
«So many moms
feel anxious and
out of control, there is a ton
of information these days,» says yoga and Pilates instructor Kristin McGee, who gave
birth to twins less than a year ago.