How to Parent While Coping With Birth Trauma As a parent, coping with birth trauma is a difficult thing. Whether you have one child or several, it can be tough to find the right way to parent them while also dealing with your trauma and trying to move past it,...
How to Care for Someone Who Has Experienced a Traumatic Birth or Pregnancy We all want to help the people we love when they’re going through a difficult time. But having good intentions doesn’t mean we know to help them in the way they need, especially if we haven’t...
How to Tell When You Should Seek Therapy After a Traumatic Birth or Pregnancy Seeking therapy isn’t easy, especially when you’ve never needed to before. It can be hard to know whether your distress is severe enough to reach out to a therapist for help. When you’ve...
Your Birth Didn’t Go as Planned—How Do You Reconcile? A common piece of advice when preparing to give birth is to plan how the delivery is going to go. You could have done all the research in the world and have been very careful about your planning, but that doesn’t...
How Does Your Body Remember Birth Trauma? You probably remember your traumatic birth more clearly than you’d like. It’s something that can be difficult to deal with, and on some days, memories of the trauma can cause you harm. Or maybe you don’t remember the birth...
What Is Birth Trauma? What is the first thing that comes to mind when you think of childbirth? It’s not uncommon to think of childbirth as wonderful or even magical. In a lot of ways, that’s exactly what childbirth is. But unfortunately, not everyone has a great...
