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Unscrewing Motherhood: Tools for Emotional Balance in Pregnancy and Beyond

Pregnancy After Loss and Birth Trauma Blog

This blog gathers gentle, in-depth articles on birth trauma, pregnancy after loss, tokophobia and perinatal anxiety. You’ll find practical tools from CBT, compassion-focused and trauma-informed approaches, to help you understand what you’re feeling and how to cope day to day.

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NICU Trauma: When Your Baby Is Safe but You're Not 

Everyone keeps telling you how lucky you are. He made it. She's home. The tubes are gone. You should be relieved.
But you can't stop seeing the alarms. The wires. The night they called you in. Your heart races when you drive past the hospital. You check your baby is breathing far more than you know is reasonable. And underneath it all is the guilt — because your baby survived, so what right do you have to feel like this?
Here's what I need you to know: your baby being okay does not mean you are okay. Gratitude and trauma are not opposites — you can feel both at once. What you're carrying is NICU trauma, and it's real, recognised, and treatable.
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