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MOMENT | Processing birth trauma with postpartum specialist Illiyin Morrison

Motherkind

Zoe Blaskey

Kids & Family, Parenting

4.8863 Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

**Trigger warning** This episode comes with a warning about birth trauma and recovery. Please give it a miss if you think it might be hard to listen to. Welcome to this week's moment episode, where I speak with the incredible Illiyin Morrison. Illy is an author and mother of two. She is also a midwife, specialising in postpartum recovery and care, facilitating birth debriefs. Illy supports couples and birthing parents as well as non-birthing parents with an awareness that perinatal trauma affects all parties.  I hope you enjoy this episode. Continue the Conversation Come engage with Zoe and our community over on Instagram for inspiration, tips, and sometimes a bit of humour to get us through our day - @zoeblaskey Join our mailing list to receive news, updates and new episode releases: https://mailchi.mp/motherkind/motherkind-mailing-list Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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How would you define if someone has a need to process their birth or perhaps birth trauma?

0:11.2

How do we know whether it's something that we need to do?

0:13.5

And it can be done years later, even decades it can't it?

0:16.4

How does someone know that that's something that might be beneficial to them?

0:20.5

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at boots.com. So a lot of the time when I'm speaking to people, I'm like, is it bothering you?

1:06.6

Is there something bothering you? And sometimes it can be a niggle, and it's just like a little kind of irritation.

1:12.8

But other times it can be more deep-rooted.

1:15.3

It can be sensitivity to noise.

1:18.0

It can be kind of a feeling around that baby.

1:20.8

It can be hypervigilance or hyper-arousal.

1:24.6

There's lots of different things.

1:25.7

I'm like, is it bothering you that experience?

1:27.9

And because I cover anything from preconception well into the postpartum period, it's like,

1:34.1

was anything in your experience bothersome? And that's the first thing I encourage them to explore.

1:40.0

Like, are you feeling okay about it? So much of it is based on how people feel rather than what actually happened.

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