This is Birth - New Zealand Stories & Conversations

Megan Lloyd-Smith

This is Birth is a podcast sharing birth stories, information and conversations from families and birth workers around New Zealand to inspire you on your birth journey. Hosted by Megan Lloyd-Smith, birth doula and educator living in Auckland, New Zealand.

Episodes

  1. 09/12/2022

    2. Healing Birth Trauma | Carla Sargent

    Carla Sargent is the founder of Healing Birth, a birth trauma support and education organisation.  She provides courses on the art and science of birth trauma healing, producing a growing number of Healing Birth Practitioners who provide support to families who are struggling to come to terms with a traumatic birth experience.  Carla recognises the strong need to raise awareness of the existence of birth trauma within society and to educate those who work in perinatal care about the implications of birth trauma, and ways to decrease its incidence and support its healing. To that end, she has conducted numerous workshops for people who work in perinatal care, and has trained a number of Healing Birth Practitioners across New Zealand and Australia. In this episode we cover: What is birth trauma? What things can impact they way people feel about their birth experiences. How to recognise birth trauma symptoms. Birth physiology and birth hormones. What things impact the way we birth.  Induction and the impact on labour, on birth and on baby. What happens when we're fearful in labour. Fight Flight Freeze Fawn responses in labour. How trauma can impact the way you bond with your baby. Carla's 3 key ways that you can mitigate birth trauma. Knowledge; Support; Tuning in to your Intuition. The importance of taking responsibility for your birth. Find out more about Carla, and find Healing Birth Practitioners here: https://www.healingbirth.co.nz/ Follow Carla on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/healing.birth/ Get in touch with your feedback and comments on this episode: https://www.instagram.com/this.is.birth.nz/

    58 min

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This is Birth is a podcast sharing birth stories, information and conversations from families and birth workers around New Zealand to inspire you on your birth journey. Hosted by Megan Lloyd-Smith, birth doula and educator living in Auckland, New Zealand.