Trauma in the perinatal space might be a traumatic birth, but it is much broader than that. Perinatal trauma can occur during pregnancy, the birth or postnatal period.
The good news is that there is treatment available for birth trauma and it’s highly effective - that therapy is call EMDR.
It is our own psychological experience that will determine whether a birth was traumatic – and given it’s the inner experience of the mother, only a mother can determine if she felt traumatised.
