Birth Trauma Support
Birth Trauma can be debilitating and is quite often overwhelming. Birth trauma can range from something terrible occurring with a poor outcome to you feeling unsafe, scared and out of control with a positive outcome. It isn’t always something needing to have happened during your labour or birth that resulted in a negative outcome physically for either yourself or your baby. In fact sometimes this is when you may notice the symptoms more intensely as all is well in your world now and you cannot understand why you are feeling constantly anxious and find yourself ruminating over your birth.
What is birth trauma?
Birth trauma is a result of you feeling out of control and not understanding what was happening and why, during your labour and birth.
Whilst you and your baby are now safe, it can be difficult to understand why you are feeling the way you do.
What causes birth trauma?
Needing medical intervention
Not being listened to
Not receiving enough pain relief
Pain and physical stress
Emotional stress and worries
Being unprepared for different birth outcomes that were not part of your birth plan
How does birth trauma present itself?
Overriding anxiety
Low mood
Flashbacks
Panic attacks
Feeling guilty, angry or numb
Not wanting to talk about the events, or talking about it obsessively
I chose to specialise within this area after years of working in busy NHS hospitals and seeing and hearing things consistently throughout my career that shouldn’t have happened.
How can I support you?
Usually turning to family and friends is the answer but in these instances other peoples responses and comments really don’t help most of the time as they try to minimise what you have gone though and what you are subsequently now feeling with the classic “At least you and your baby are well” Or “Its happened now, time to move forward” which only increases your anxiety and symptoms.
Talking these things through with a trained professional helps you to understand what happened and why which is imperative for your brain to be able to process the information, settle down and ultimately heal.
Prices & Packages
Virtual Consultation (1 hour via zoom)
£120
Virtual Consultation (30 minutes)
£60
Antenatal home visit (2 hours)
£250
Initial Postnatal home visit (2 hours)
£250
Follow up Postnatal home visit (1.5 hours)
£185
In depth email response
£50
Brief text response
£5
Packages
Light support
1 x home visit around 35 weeks
Labour and birth scenario planning
1 x home visit once home with your baby
Birth debrief and getting feeding off to the best start
Total: £500
Medium support
2x home visits between 32-36 weeks
Labour and birth scenario planning (or caesarean section if relevant)
Breastfeeding/Feeding preparation
2 x home visits once home with your baby
Birth debrief and getting feeding off to the best start
Follow up for you and baby and a feeding review
Total: £1,000
Comphrensive support
3 x virtual consultations (split into x 6 30 min catch ups)
2 x home visits between 32-36 weeks
Labour and birth scenario planning (or caesarean section if relevant)
Breastfeeding/Feeding preparation
Developing a postnatal plan for the first weeks at home
3 x home visits once home with your baby
Birth debrief and getting feeding off to the best start
Follow up for you and baby and a feeding review
Looking ahead - setting you up for the next few months
Total: £2,000