Taking care of your own mental health is one way to help ensure you’re being the best parent you can be for your children. While you may feel overwhelmed, at times, working to pursue your own mental health care and meet all of the demands of being a parent, there are some benefits associated with this particular experience…

EMDR therapy addresses not only past traumas, but also current and future situations that are causing fear and distress related to pregnancy and childbirth…

Cheryl Tatano Beck's research on trauma caused by childbirth defines childbirth trauma as "an event occurring during the labor and delivery process that involves actual or threatened serious injury or death to the mother or her infant"…she later expanded that definition to include events during labor and delivery where the birthing person feels/perceives that they've been stripped of their dignity.