The Hidden Cost of Birth Trauma

The Hidden Cost of Birth Trauma

What is the hidden cost of birth trauma? Many women experience frightening and life-threatening experiences giving birth often coupled with a lack of emotional support or any dignity. As one traumatised client told me “No one prepared me that childbirth … Read...
The Hidden Cost of Birth Trauma

Post Traumatic Stress after childbirth

Three of the key symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress after Childbirth Re-experiencing the event Physical sensations – pain, nausea, sweating Nightmares Flashbacks – involuntarily and vividly re-living what happened during the birth Repetitive and upsetting...