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This is for mothers - how can I recover from a traumatic birth?

 
The stress of a difficult birth can take its toll both emotionally and physically on mothers. There is no such things as trauma will go away with time if you do not do something to help yourself.  Hoping that the feelings will go away or assume that they are not important too does not help with your healing.  Remember you are not alone when you feel your birth experience was not as what you expected.  It affects your partner, your baby and family dynamics.  Do seek support and share your experiences with others to help you to make sense of what happened. 
 
Here are some experiential exercises you can do to help your central nervous system to self-regulate.  Remember, when you are calm and relax, your baby resonates to your calm and relax energy and in turn he can be relaxed and calm.
 
Mindful breathing. To quickly calm yourself in any situation, simply take 60 deep breaths, focusing your attention on each out breath.  Practise becoming aware of the rate of your breath, is your breathing deep or shallow, what is moving in your chest when you are breathing, can you sense, hear and feel your heartbeat while breathing, are you aware you are holding your breath when you are occupied in your thoughts.
 
Sensory input. Activate your five senses to keep you grounded and in the present moment.   This would help to regulate, regain and reset the function of your central nervous system to a state of balance.
 
Listening: Does listening to an uplifting song make you feel calm?  When listening to music, sing and hum along to the music.  Singing and humming stimulates the muscles in the back of the throat and creates an internal vibration in our throat that stimulates the vagus nerve.
 
Smell:  Diffusing essential oils can help you to calm down and relax.  Find a good source of essential oil, learn more about the properties of the essential oil and use them correctly to help you eliminate your birth trauma.  You can easily order them online here.
 
Touch:  Get a therapeutic massage.  If this is not an option for you, get your partner involved in your healing process. A good hug or cuddle (lots and lots of this) helps release oxytocin. Oxytocin is a hormone secreted by the posterior lobe of the pituitary gland, a pea-sized structure at the base of the brain. It’s sometimes known as the “cuddle hormone” or the “love hormone,” because it is released when people snuggle up or bond socially.  Oxytocin plays a role in behaviors from maternal-infant bonding and milk release, so get yourself lots of cuddles.
 
Sensory input. Activate your five senses to keep you grounded and in the present moment.   This would help to regulate, regain and reset the function of your central nervous system to a state of balance.
 
Listening: Does listening to an uplifting song make you feel calm?  When listening to music, sing and hum along to the music.  Singing and humming stimulates the muscles in the back of the throat and creates an internal vibration in our throat that stimulates the vagus nerve.
 
Smell:  Diffusing essential oils can help you to calm down and relax.  Find a good source of essential oil, learn more about the properties of the essential oil and use them correctly to help you eliminate your birth trauma.  You can easily order them online here.
 
Touch:  Get a therapeutic massage.  If this is not an option for you, get your partner involved in your healing process. A good hug or cuddle (lots and lots of this) helps release oxytocin. Oxytocin is a hormone secreted by the posterior lobe of the pituitary gland, a pea-sized structure at the base of the brain. It’s sometimes known as the “cuddle hormone” or the “love hormone,” because it is released when people snuggle up or bond socially.  Oxytocin plays a role in behaviors from maternal-infant bonding and milk release, so get yourself lots of cuddles.
 
Taste:  Get that taste buds involved in overcoming anxiety with changing your diet and eating habits.  There are foods that will help reduce anxiety and foods that will contribute to anxiety, and by choosing the right foods, you can drastically cut down on the amount of anxiety you experience – and possibly improve your mood. One best source of calming food is probiotics. Your gut bacteria is needed for production of neurotransmitters, including serotonin, dopamine, and gamma-aminobutyric acid, which play an important role in mood.  There are many researches that say gut bacteria has a direct link to the brain and the immune system, so restoring balance in the gut through use of probiotics can benefit the brain. You can either take a probiotic supplement or fermented foods.
 
Vision:  Love at first sight: remembering the first time you saw your baby. What was it like for you?  What was it like for father? Recall your experience when you first see your baby. Each time you look at your baby, describe to yourself how do you feel.  Make a journal of your experience.  (If Vision is not an option for you, leave this out)
 
Water
Keep yourself hydrated.  Take small and frequent sips of water. 
 
Cold showers  
Researchers have also found that exposing yourself to cold on a regular basis can lower your sympathetic “fight or flight” response and increase parasympathetic (relax response) activity through the vagus nerve.  Take cold showers or simply immerse your face in ice cold water. 
 
 
Give this a try and let me know how things go with you. If you need any assistance you can call Adida to book a craniosacral therapy session for yourself and your baby.
 
 
Give this a try and let me know how things go with you. If you need any assistance you can call Adida to book a craniosacral therapy session for yourself and your baby.


 

Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy is a gentle and subtle whole body approach that releases tensions deep in the Central Nervous System so that every other systems in our body can relax and self correct, free itself of pain and other health issues.

"Each of us has an innate capacity for healing, to heal ourselves, to heal others and to help others heal themselves" - Subagh Singh Khalsa 
Sometimes we need a little bit of help and Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy could be just that.
To book a session please call Adida at 97426791.  Thank you.
 
 
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