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Birth Trauma Resolution is safe and effective treatment for those who have suffered a birth trauma and may now be experiencing PTSD

24/11/2025

🌿 Perinatal OCD.

The intrusive thoughts can feel overwhelming.
And can occur during pregnancy or after birth, where your brain is working hard to protect you and your baby… but sometimes it goes into over-alert, creating unwanted, frightening thoughts (obsessions) and rituals (compulsions) that feel impossible to ignore.

You might experience:
• Intrusive fears about germs, illness, or contamination
• Doubts like “Did I check the baby? Did I do that right?”
• Terrifying thoughts about harm coming to your baby
• Avoiding situations that trigger fear — even caring for your baby at times

These thoughts feel real and distressing — but they do not reflect who you are as a parent.

💛 When you’ve experienced trauma — including birth trauma — your nervous system stays on alert.
OCD can step in as a way of trying to keep you and your baby safe… but in a way that becomes exhausting and consumes your time, energy and peace.

🌱 There is support which can help you recover -
⭐️Calming your nervous system
⭐️Understanding why OCD shows up (unmet needs + stress)
⭐️Separating you from the OCD voice — the “bully” thoughts
⭐️Gentle trauma healing
⭐️Practising new, calmer responses
⭐️Rebuilding your emotional needs: support, rest, confidence, connection

You deserve to feel calm, connected and confident in caring for your baby.
If this resonates, reaching out for help takes courage and can be the first step toward feeling like yourself again. 🤍

20/11/2025

“My wife and I worked with Tracy while I was pregnant with my second child.

My first birth was traumatic, but everyone around us acted like nothing major had happened. The hospital staff behaved as though I’d done something wrong.

They broke my waters during my admission without asking. I’d been pushing for an hour and a half before they discovered that my baby was back to back and had the cord around her neck twice. I was whisked into an operating theatre. They took the gas and air I’d been using and didn’t give it back. I contracted hard and fast, sitting up on an operating table, no pain relief, while they unsuccessfully tried to place an epidural for what seemed like half an hour. The person in charge all the while shouting at the top of her lungs.

They gave me an episiotomy and got the baby out. I hemorrhaged on the table and they worked to stop it, but not until I lost half of my blood volume.
More shouting.
A male surgical assistant had to push his arm into me past his elbow, rummaging inside my body for the gauze they’d had to use to stem the bleeding; a sensation that plagued me afterwards.

We made it out alive but I was a physical wreck. Fully incontinent, a balloon in my womb to stop the bleeding, I tried desperately to sleep and feed the baby while being moved from room to room, facing nightmares whenever I closed my eyes. All I could hear was the distress of other parents and babies on the ward.
These memories haunted me for a long time, though I felt I just had to move on and look after the baby, and be glad to be alive. My wife suffered even more having witnessed all of this; the scene was so gory she had to throw away the shoes she’d been wearing. It put her off ever being pregnant; I felt like I wanted to try again now I understood what might happen.

We were recommended Tracy by our midwife. It didn’t feel like something real, that could really make a material difference to our minds, but our second birth was approaching and our anxiety was rising quickly.
To say that it was like magic is a bit of an understatement. The memories no longer hang around me all the time like a sick fog..
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17/11/2025

Today is
I give space for you, for your story, your pain, your fears and joy.

Experiencing a premature labour and birth can be terrifying, traumatic and is strongly associated with developing PTSD.

National guidance recommends all parents who have a baby in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) should have access to psychological and social support, 30% of English, neonatal units surveyed by the charity Bliss had no psychological support at all for parents.

I asked one of my clients to express her experience of having premature twins on NICU…….
She said “ NICU is the most magical place to be yet the most devastating.
The memories which will haunt me forever yet are the most precious memories of my life”

Picture from .babies

03/11/2025

Nothing can prepare you for the emotional rollercoaster of life in the neonatal unit.

One moment, hope rises — a stable night, a small weight gain, a tiny milestone.

The next, fear returns — another alarm, another setback, another wave of uncertainty.
It’s a place where joy and grief, strength and exhaustion, all live side by side.

Where parents learn to celebrate the tiniest victories — a feed, a cuddle, a stable oxygen level — while holding their breath for what comes next.

NICU life asks for everything — patience, courage, love, and resilience you didn’t know you had.

And even when you leave, it stays with you.
The sound of beeping monitors, the smell of sanitiser, the feeling of powerlessness — all can linger long after discharge.

Please reach out - sessions with are gentle, supportive and can help you in your healing journey.

💚 If you’re living this journey, or finding your way back from it — please know you’re not alone.
You are doing the impossible, every single day.
💙 Organisations offering support and connection:

02/11/2025

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In the UK, around 1 in 13 babies are born before 37 weeks — that’s nearly 58,000 babies every year.
Worldwide, it’s around 1 in 10 — over 13 million babies born too soon.
💥 Premature (or preterm) birth is when a baby is born before 37 weeks of pregnancy.
There are different categories:
🚩Extremely preterm – before 28 weeks
🚩Very preterm – 28 to 31 weeks
🚩Moderate to late preterm – 32 to 37 weeks.

⏰ When a baby is born early, they may need medical care in a neonatal unit. The earlier the birth, the more vulnerable the baby — and the more intense the emotional impact on parents.
💔 We also know that not every baby born too soon makes it home.
To those grieving or still finding your way through — I’m holding you in my thoughts.

💚NICU isn’t rare — it’s just rarely spoken about.
Black and Asian babies in the UK are more likely to be born prematurely. Preterm birth can happen in any pregnancy — and often without known causes.

Every neonatal journey is different. But feeling seen, understood, and supported makes a world of difference. 💜

If you or someone you love has experienced premature birth, here are some wonderful organisations offering connection and support:
💚 Bliss
💙 The Smallest Things
💜 The NICU Foundation
💙 Tiny Lives
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And remember — my DMs are always open if you need to talk or share. 💬

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