Birth Trauma: When Giving Life To Your Baby Gets You Down
Birth trauma is usually associated with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) that flows childbirth. Although there are many women who give birth to their babies with relative ease but there are also a lot of women all over the world who find childbirth as very stressful and painful experience that they end up having birth trauma. Women who are suffering from birth trauma manifest different types of symptoms. To help a woman cope with birth trauma, one must learn to recognize the different symptoms of this disorder.
Persistent Re-Experiencing
One of the most common manifestations of birth trauma is the so-called "persistent re-experiencing" where the patient would continue to relieve her horrible experience. Recurrent and intrusive memories of what happened would often cause nightmares and flashbacks that could cause a lot of discomforts on the part of the sufferer. Usually, when the suffer sees, smells or hears something that is associated with the event, she will start to feel anxious or panicky.
Often times, women who are suffering from birth trauma would have difficulty with their relationship with others. According to studies, because she is afraid of going through that painful and stressful experience again, she may start to withdraw from sex. Since sex is associated with childbirth, a woman who is going through severe birth trauma may develop some aversions towards sex.
Avoidance And Obsession
Many women who are suffering from birth trauma would rather not discuss their experience. Every time the topic of childbirth comes up, she will start to feel distressed and would not have anything to do with discussions related to childbirth. However, on the extreme end of the spectrum, some women who are going through birth trauma would be so obsessed about their experience that they would not talk about anything else other than their experience with childbirth.
As the woman becomes more obsessed with her childbirth experience, she would start losing sleep, becomes very irritable and sullen. More often than not, a woman who is experiencing trauma would have difficulty communicating and relating to other people around her.
To help a woman come to terms with there traumatic experience, it is best to seek for professional help. Note that childbirth trauma could have a very bad effect on the life of a woman. Seeing a doctor and getting the right form of therapy could help the woman cope with the situation.
