Birth Trauma
When you were pregnant did you envisage a tranquil home birth, maybe a water birth, candles lit, soothing music playing, all serene and beautiful?
We often imagine a calm and empowered birth — but the reality can be very different.
Maybe you ended up in hospital with male doctors making decisions for you.
Were there complications? Perhaps you had to have an episiotomy or maybe there were unexpected tears.
Possibly you needed interventions to help to birth the baby?
It may have felt rushed or panicked.
Maybe there was a complication with the placenta, causing you to be parted from your baby shortly after they were born?
Or did you need to have an emergency caesarean, everybody rushing round you at the last minute.
Perhaps you felt invisible and unheard in the chaos.
This takes away all the calm that you'd been trying to cultivate, and sends your nervous system into
high alert and leaves lasting emotional and physical effects.
Was it a traumatic experience?
I help women who have experienced an unexpectedly difficult birth, to gently release their birth trauma and move on with their lives.
Healing is possible
I offer two accessible methods:
TRE to gently Release trauma
TRE - Tension/ Trauma Release Exercises
A gentle set of exercises that tap you into your body’s natural shaking mechanism so that you can literally shake away the tension or trauma you’ve been holding.
I recommend 5 sessions over 5 weeks
Yoga Therapy for Nervous System regulation
Yoga Therapy
Taking a holistic approach to the whole person from all aspects of their life, I teach simple breath led yoga that can be practiced in short ‘snacks’ when needed such as when you’re waiting for the kettle to boil.
I recommend 10 sessions over 10 weeks
You’ll learn them in a way that works for your schedule, so you can use them whenever you need support.
You don’t have to live with birth trauma — healing is possible.
If this resonates, get in touch and we can explore a plan that helps you move forward.
You experience enormous change
Giving Birth can involve pain, fear, complications, or procedures you didn’t expect
Afterwards, you may struggle with bonding, feel overwhelmed, experience resentment, or notice signs of post‑natal depression.
All of these things are real.
And when you think about it, these feelings are all perfectly normal.
The most natural thing that humans are designed to do has been medicalised beyond recognition, often with no thought for the woman who is doing the birthing.
Does this feel familiar?
Even without the panic or the doctors, giving birth can be a traumatic experience.
We are often encouraged to lie down with our legs up - meaning that the baby has to move on an upwards angle without the help of gravity.
We are often hooked up to all kinds of machines, which make it impossible to get up and move about when needed.
It's no wonder it's a struggle.
Then you throw in a Doctor who has no clue what it actually feels like to give birth and treats it like a 'Procedure'
Many women physically shake after giving birth.
It’s not an easy task, there’s a reason it’s called labour!
It’s not easy on the nervous system.
It's no wonder your nervous system is on high alert!
And that is without having a cesarean where you get to watch your body being cut open to birth the baby.
Even straightforward births can be traumatic. Your pelvis, nervous system, and whole body go through enormous change.
And then there’s the recovery, the realignment of the pelvis.
Your pelvis had to move apart to create space for the baby to be born and now it needs time to go back to normal.
This can cause pain or discomfort.
And not to mention the small matter of a helpless tiny human being that needs 24 hour attention immediately.
When do you get to sleep off that exhausting labour?
In fact when do you get to have a full night's sleep again?
It’s a lot isn’t it?
It’s no wonder you’re struggling.
If any of this resonates with you, see how I may be able to help you.
You don’t have to stay stuck in this experience
There are tools you can learn
- Tools that can help you to find a bit of peace and release the held tension from your body.
- Tools that will help you to relax and regulate your nervous system
- Tools that will help you to feel normal again
I understand that you are busy
Looking after a small child is a full time job, often on top of a ‘real’ job.
So you’re looking for something that doesn’t take up too much time in your day, something that you can easily slot into a spare 10 or 15 minutes. Something that doesn't take too long to learn.
Something simple.
You don’t have to live with this trauma.
It is possible to move on from it.
It is possible to have your old self back.
If this feels familiar and you'd like to have a chat to find out more you can book a Free 15 minute discovery consultation to see if this could work for you.