Parents and loved ones can also benefit from targeted consultations that help them to piece together and understand what transpired that contributed to their traumatic experience. Individual and group sessions are available.
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Professionals can also benefit from professional development in resilience-based client care, understanding secondary and vicarious trauma, burnout, and strategies for recovery. If you feel you are also depressed you may need some extra help or treatment, such as taking medication.Professional consultations, webinars, seminars, and workshops are available for care providers, allied health care providers, birth-related professionals, clinics, training organisations, birthing units, educators and more to provide professional development in the understanding of traumatic birth experiences, trauma in the perinatal client, and skills development in trauma-informed care specific to the perinatal client. Trauma is not the same as postnatal depression, but they can sometimes occur at the same time.Many women will find the above suggestions helpful but if you are concerned that you are not able to ‘move on’ from your difficult experience then talk to a doctor, midwife or other healthcare professional about your experiences and concerns.Confront avoided activities and places by breaking down the avoided activities or situations into small steps and gradually facing up to these, starting from easiest to hardest.If you are feeling angry or irritable remove yourself from that situation until you calm down.Ask for some help with looking after the baby if you are finding it difficult.Try to do some normal activities that you enjoy, such as going for a walk, talking to a friend on the phone or listening to music.Practice relaxation techniques, particularly ones that help you to regulate your breathing.Make sure that you eat regularly, sleep well and look after your needs. Speak to other mums that have had similar experiences.Talk to someone who was there at the birth about what happened, what you remember and how you felt.Talk to your partner, friends or family about your feelings. Relationships: Strained, Isolating yourself, Distant from others, No interest in sex, Difficulty bonding with the baby Thoughts: “I don’t want any more children”, “I’m going mad”, Intrusive memories, Not wanting to think about the birthīodily reaction: Extreme tension: Difficulty sleeping, Inability to relax, Tiredness, Difficulty in concentrating Previous trauma as a child, adult or during pregnancy/birth.įeelings: Agitated and anxious, Irritable, Angry, Frightened, Numb, Depressed, As if in a dream, On edge, Guiltyīeliefs: I have failed, I’m a bad mum, It’s my faultīehaviours: Avoiding pregnant women and new mums, Avoid caring for the baby, Avoiding anything to do with childbirth, Overprotective of baby.Feeling like you weren’t listened to or told what was happening.Fears for your own or the baby’s safety.Needing a lot of medical help or procedures.An extremely long, painful and distressing labour and/or delivery.There are a number of factors that could lead to birth trauma: They may have felt hopeless without any sense of control over events. Women can feel traumatised after being faced with the possibility of death or serious harm to themselves or the baby during birth. Feeling very angry, anxious and/or depressed.įeeling this way is a common reaction to a very bad or scary.Avoidance of situations that trigger memories of giving birth.Not wanting to talk about the event or talking about it obsessively.Recurring, overwhelming flashbacks, memories, thoughts or nightmares about the birth.Intense anxiety reactions when reminded of giving birth.Unfortunately, for some, it can be a difficult and upsetting process and a small number of women who have had a distressing childbirth go on to develop symptoms of trauma known as post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Birmingham and Solihull Community Mental Health and Wellbeing Serviceįor the majority of women childbirth, though painful, is usually a positive experience.Forensic Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (FCAMHS).Community Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) Service.Op COURAGE: The Veterans Mental Health and Wellbeing Service.Clinical health and neuropsychology service.
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