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Every pregnancy is different, as they say. Some women report feeling excited, blissed out, maternal, connected to the baby, closer to their partner than ever, healthy, strong, and in awe. But not everyone feels that way. Other women talk about feeling sick, scared, resentful, burdened, anxious, not ready, not confident, disconnected or depressed. My work with pregnant women might be to stabilize moods, clear
out ideas, feelings and beliefs that stand in the way of feeling
more positive about their new baby or identifying risk factors
for postpartum depression and creating plans to prevent or minimize
the risk.
Some women have experienced sexual, physical and/or emotional
abuse in their past. Research points to the dire importance
of healing those experiences prior to giving birth to minimize
the way old trauma might impact the birth and postpartum experience.
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