Therapy for Birth Trauma
Because you need to heal from what you thought would be the best moment of your life. You are not alone and there is nothing wrong with you - birth trauma is real and healing is possible.
Trauma lives inside our body; it’s how our body and our brain react to an event (or accumulation of situations) that leaves us in distress. Trauma occurs when we lacked emotional and/or physical protection.
Birth trauma happens during or after giving birth, but anything distressing that happens during your reproductive journey can lead to trauma.
Birth trauma can happen while giving birth, where the birth was less than ideal, where we or the baby had a near death experience, where there were medical complications, and where we were left feeling confused and afraid of what was going on. Medical complications are not a prerequisite to birth trauma.
Trauma is subjective.
Only you gets to decide what counts as trauma when it comes to the birth of your baby. Any distressing event, accumulation of situations, or lack of physical/emotional protection during your reproductive journey can lead to trauma. Infertility, pregnancy and infant loss, racism, homophobia, transphobia, lack of clear communication and ageism (to name a few) can lead to trauma during your reproductive journey.
