Birth trauma, what it is and what we can do about it with Dr Rebecca Moore

The Motherkind Podcast

Parenting, Kids & Family

4.8 • 837 Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2018

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Episode 11 is with Dr Rebecca Moore, who is a consultant perinatal psychiatrist with over 20 years experience in treating the psychological aspects of pregnancy, birth and early motherhood. Her clinical expertise covers PTSD, birth trauma, anxiety, depression, and the mum-baby bond. She is also training to be an Integrative Practioner - which is a healing-oriented medicine that takes account of the whole person, including all aspects of lifestyle. I was so excited to chat with Becca and learn more about this vitally important area and the work she does. What we cover in this episode: - What birth trauma is and how we know if we need help - What we can do to prepare for birth - The importance of normalising psychologically challenging births - The power of journaling and other ways we can start to process our birth experiences I hope you enjoy the episode and if you want to talk directly to Becca about anything we cover in the episode, she is happy to respond to direct messages on Instagram @drrebeccamoore. Please join the conversation from this episode on Instagram @motherkind.co. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:13.7	Hello and welcome to episode 11 of the Motherkind podcast with me Zoe Blaski,
1:18.7	where each week I chat to a well-being expert about all things motherhood.
1:23.6	This week I'm chatting with the wonderful Dr Rebecca Moore.
1:27.4	Becca is a consultant perinatal psychiatrist with 20 years experience in treating the psychological aspects of pregnancy and birth.
1:35.3	And her expertise covers PTSD, birth trauma, anxiety and depression and the mum and baby bond.
1:42.3	She's also training to be an integrative practitioner,
1:46.0	so she's a huge advocate of holistic interventions like yoga,
1:50.0	journaling, healthy eating and meditation.
1:53.0	I was so excited to chat to Becca,
1:56.0	especially as I've seen so many of my friends
1:58.0	struggling with the impact of their birth.
2:00.0	I was really keen to learn about
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