Birth Trauma: One Woman’s Experience and Healing

Lauren Henderberg is the guest blogger on healmypsd.com. In this blog, she speaks about the connection one must make between birth trauma and post traumatic stress disorder. Any situation that makes a person feel helpless or threatened may cause full blown PTSD. Ms. Henderberg experienced a traumatic birth with her first child due to extended labor, a bungled instrumental delivery, and excessive post-partum bleeding. Although she suffered immediate PTSD, she did not have a clue what her birth trauma had caused, so she did not get treatment for two years. Finally, after using Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy, she has healed and now she shares her wisdom with others through a blog at peaceoutofpieces.com.

Read the entire article here: Birth Trauma: One Woman’s Experience and Healing