From @birth_trauma_association_uk on IG:

✔️Birth trauma is PTSD after childbirth.
➡️It is also used for those who have some symptoms of PTSD, but not enough for a full diagnosis.
➡️It can happen to people who have witnessed a traumatic event; partners can experience PTSD after seeing a traumatic birth.

✔️What makes birth traumatic is the fear that you or your baby are going to die.

✔️4 main symptoms:
➡️Re-experiencing the traumatic event through flashbacks, nightmares or intrusive memories. These make you feel distressed and panicky.
➡️Avoiding anything that reminds you of the trauma. This can mean refusing to walk past the hospital where you gave birth, or avoiding meeting others with new babies.
➡️Feeling hypervigilant: this means that you are constantly alert, irritable and jumpy. You worry that something terrible is going to happen to your baby.
➡️Feeling low and unhappy (“negative cognition” in the medical jargon). You may feel guilty and blame yourself for your traumatic birth. You may have difficulty remembering parts of your birth experience.

✔️Birth trauma can overlap with postnatal depression (PND) as some of the symptoms are the same, but the two illnesses are distinct and need to be treated individually.

From @uofmichigan on IG:

✔️ People who experience trauma earlier in life are more likely to experience trauma during pregnancy. Trauma exposures that are especially salient to the childbearing year include childhood maltreatment or adverse childhood experiences, previous traumatic birth or loss, prior medical or sexual trauma and discriminatory or inequitable care.

✔️Rates of PTSD are more than 3X higher in lower resource, urban settings where the population is predominantly Black, than in the general female population.

✔️Pregnancy, childbirth and early parenting can be a time when post-traumatic symptoms actually get worse. That’s because the childbearing year has so many triggers or reminders of past trauma that make a person feel like the trauma is happening again.

Go to my “trauma” highlight on my IG @babiesafter35 for more info!

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