Many patients who experience this event often state how grateful they feel to be alive in the time immediately following the event, however, all those supporting them should allow for, and support, a wide range of emotions so they feel validated in the trauma they experienced to get there.
It may come to a surprise to many, but a negative subjective experience of childbirth is one of the strongest predictors for postpartum PTSD.
So many of the women we work with describe having a feeling of powerlessness and loss of autonomy… the feeling that nobody in the room is listening or cares.
