Birth trauma doesn't have to define you. Birth debriefs can heal you.

Growing a baby is something truly amazing.

Birthing that baby is a rite of passage.

It brings the journey from maiden to mother, or experienced mother to new mother again.

But what if the journey doesn’t go as planned?

In 2024, the state of NSW participated in a birth trauma investigation.

As outlined in ‘Birth Trauma Australia’ it identified one in three women leave birth feeling physically and/or psychologically traumatized.

One in three.

Birth trauma is carried within our bodies and our minds.

However, not all birth trauma symptoms are obvious.

A person holding birth trauma may:

-          Be hyper-productive – because slowing down gives the opportunity to feel.

-          Have difficulty making decisions, especially around health and parenting – because the trust in judgement has been broken.

-          Be overly organized and seeking control – an unconscious effort to regain a sense of control that was lost in birth.

-          Blame themselves for everything or have a constant sense of failure – trust in themselves and their body has vanished.

-          Have body tension or pain that does not resolve – the body holds the trauma within.

-          Experience emotional reactivity to medical environments – the body remembers where it was hurt.

Kylie after birthing her second son.

Maybe you’re reading this feeling a sense of relation.

A sense of validation.

Our matrescence journey is meant to change us.

But it’s meant to change us for the better.

Birth trauma victims do not have to carry the weight.

It can be lifted and released.

You can find yourself again.

I offer birth debrief sessions to guide you to release your held trauma and find yourself again.