Birth does not just bring a baby into the world. It also leaves an imprint on the person giving birth.

When a woman expects birth to feel empowering, trauma can become particularly difficult to process psychologically. The experience not only disrupts the birth itself, but also her sense of self and the meaning she attached to birth.

Many women experience a gradual transfer of authority away from themselves and into the system surrounding them during birth. Machines become more trusted than sensation or instinct, and external management replaces internal orientation.

Many women emerge from highly medicalised births feeling confused by how quickly they lost trust in themselves. But trust during labour is not just a psychological state, it is driven by physiology.

It All Begins Here

It All Begins Here

It All Begins Here