14/05/2024
Hello, I’m just listening to the conversation that’s current on the radio on women and trauma in the birthing rooms.
Having a very traumatic birth as a result of the people around you not only going through the journey of labouring and the newness of the situation you might be in is a highly charged and stressful place. If you feel and are hearing that you are unwelcomed in the way you are labouring then the nervous system is not going to be able to unlock the parts of the body that need to open up to the process of letting go literally to give birth.
If we look at what giving means this is a place that normally one would be in a state of happiness which would produce a feeling of positive hormones and relaxation in the body. Whilst labouring affects each person individually the people around you are essential in how they communicate and behave this can shut a person down if they start to be taken away from the job of labouring and can cause a lot of grief, anger and sustained anxiety throughout their lives. I believe craniosacral therapy can address this.
My interests at this point with how I treat is to be able to go to those places that have unsettled us and together find a place of peace to allow the body to assimilate the information and not go into a stuck pattern every time a trigger occurs.
Not only this but treating the whole family dynamic is important so if the labour was strained and the stress of the situation stemmed the flow of the birthing process and then this can affect the baby and whoever was in the room. There could be a knock on effect as your baby is connected via an umbilical cord and the person who is intimate with you is also very much involved and would find they are also effected at times with no understanding. This is definitely part of a bigger conversation. I leave a link to MIND website a great charity that helps with mental health and wish you well however you choose to recover from these difficult places-
https://www.mind.org.uk/information-support/types-of-mental-health-problems/postnatal-depression-and-perinatal-mental-health/ptsd-and-birth-trauma/ #:~:text=life%20to%20support-,Treatments%20for%20postnatal%20PTSD,about%20what's%20best%20for%20you.
