As a trauma specialist and certified EMDR clinician, I use EMDR and other mind - body therapies to help women heal
from traumatic birth experiences.
I soon found I was especially interested in helping women heal
from traumatic birth experiences.
Not exact matches
I
experienced a
traumatic birth with my first child, and was able to use what I knew about how to heal
from trauma to help myself through.
When I opened my private practice I was co-located in a midwifery office, the midwives I worked with attracted many women with history of
traumatic birth seeking better care and I ended up taking on many clients with
traumatic stress symptoms in a subsequent pregnancies and reporting
experiences of obstetric violence and / or triggering memories and flashbacks
from childhood or earlier life abuses.
There's prolonged, more intense pain postpartum, a longer hospital stay, readmission to the hospital, an upsetting or emotionally
traumatic birth experience, less early contact and connection with the baby, depression and mental health problems, low self - esteem, relationship issues, difficulty functioning and doing usual daily activities postpartum, chronic pelvic pain
from scar tissue, problems with and discontinuing breastfeeding - along with the associated risks to mom and baby of not breastfeeding.
Women who have had an incredibly
traumatic birth experience suffer
from a type of psychological strain that's not too much different than the effects of a life - threatening event like war or a natural disaster.
AIMSI are delighted to hear that there will be recommendations to assist women who
experience birth trauma, as so many of our calls come
from women who have had
traumatic experiences in our maternity services.
She lectured widely in different countries and has learned
from mothers and midwives in the USA and Canada, the Caribbean, Eastern and Western Europe, Israel, Australia and New Zealand, Latin America, South Africa and Japan, and
from women in prison and those who have had a
traumatic birth experience.
According to Blumenfeld, any mother who has
experienced a
traumatic birth should seek help
from a licensed professional therapist and / or a support group — talking about your
experience and feeling less alone is integral to the healing process.
We support clients struggling to get pregnant,
experiencing worry and anxiety during pregnancy, recovering
from a
traumatic birth, mourning the loss of a pregnancy or child, facing post-partum depression and anxiety, or adjusting to the pressures of a growing family.
I might not have suffered
from postpartum depression in the wake of a
traumatic birth experience.
In this post, I will discuss risk factors that may arise during labor that are associated with a negative or
traumatic birth experience, and also describe specific intrapartum words or actions that are designed to reduce the trauma and prevent PTSD
from developing.What you need to know about the childbearing woman:
Whilst many fathers reported the negative impact of the
traumatic birth on themselves and their relationships, some reported post-
traumatic growth
from the
experience and others identified friends and family as a valuable source of support.
Even if you have a very positive
birth experience, your body is literally going through a
traumatic event expelling a separate living being (or two, or three)
from your body.
While I agree that one person can't define what is
traumatic for another, it's pretty irritating to read posts
from women who had normal, healthy
births without permanent damage to themselves or their babies complain about not getting the
birth experience they wanted.
I have, after all,
experienced 6
births that ran the gamut
from peaceful to nearly
traumatic.