Post Partum Depression

"A calm, confident, intuitive mother is inside every female.
She just needs the freedom to BE."
-Chris Anne Johnson, Founder & Director
MaternityWise Postpartum Doula Training

POST PARTUM SERVICES

"The Body Unconscious is where Life Bubbles Up in us". D.H. Lawrence.

Scope of Practice:

To assist families in the care of their newborn

Change diapers, baby bathing, care for baby while mother rests or showers.

Keep mother well hydrated, educate mother and family on new born care

Assist new mothers with breast feeding

Assist mother with her own puerperal, and/or incision care

Help mother with resources for information

Assist with newborn cord and circumcision care

Light housekeeping to give mom time with the new baby.

Provide emotional support for mother as she explores her feelings about the birth and her roll as a new mother

Traumatic Birth Recovery

How can you help me?

Difficult births are possible and do happen even with all the extensive planning and training, it can leave a mother feeling like her birth was not the way she wanted it at all. Taking the time to reframe this early after the birth, allows the mother to regain her balance and focus and stay on task with the many demands her new born is going to ask of her.

I use hypnotherpy and NLP to assist my mothers in reframing the birth so it does not disturb her emotional recovery, and her relationship and bonding with the new infant. Time, patience and healing.

Loss of an Infant

If I know of someone struggling, how can I help?

This is an area of deep personal spiritual growth and takes time for healing. Helping parents to let go requires training in areas of bereavement. I have extensive training in this area. For assistance or consultation, please contact me at 604-421-1722 welterk@shaw.ca

If someone you know is struggling with loss or depression following the birth of an infant, notice the signs and encourage them to get some help. It can make all the difference in their lives and the life of their newborn.

Signs of Post Partum stress or depression:

All mothers are tired after the strenuous energy of a birth, however, sometimes it's more than just recovering from a birth, sometimes things happened that the mom is just not recovering well.

MOTHERS NEEDS:

To feel safe, as she allows herself to explore her feelings and her thoughts. These two are highly connected and during birth, she is highly suggestible. Therefore, the statements, the looks, the beliefs that she experiences through her birth can often leave her feeling lost, a failure and fearful for both herself and her infant.

SOME SIGNS OF DEPRESSION:

No Joy, no happiness with her infant - the "good enough mother" but not the joy and love in being a mother

A "blunted" mother, sad, motionless, fatigued, distant from her baby and her family and even herself.

Angry, Unnecessary fears, negative thinking

Not sleeping, emotional, and unable to cope with baby's needs

Or fear of leaving baby unattended even for a moment

Severe dreams interrupting sleep

Not eating, finding everything extremely negative

Not showering or maintaining self care

Disinterest in the baby, good enough, but not loving or interested in the infant.

Disinterest in the family life

Lack of attention when speaking to her, anxiety, not available for intimate relationships

Sleeping through babies cries

Not wanting to leave the house

Shortness of temper or completely lack of emotional response

These can be signs of post partum depression and are easily attended to without the involvement of drug therapies, which can be harmful to baby.

How Can Hypnotherapy Help Post Partum Depression?

Not unlike, PTSD, Post Traumatic Stress Syndrom, with similarities, operating at a "machine pace" the residual disappointment of chilbirth, traumatic interventions, & fear, overwhelms the mother's nervous system.

Essentially 3-4 sessions of hypnotherapy will rebalance the new mothers brain chemistry so that her natural internal system simply "re-boots". When we have long periods of interrupted or shorten sleeping, the brain does not release the levels of serotonin and endorphins needed which we generally get during a regular 8-10 hour nights sleep.

When that is interferred with over longer periods of time, this interruption can create distortions in the body and the brain.

Hypnotherapy allows the mother to achieve the deep state needed to "re-start" the brain chemistry and after 3-4 sessions over a few days time, her own internal system will come back to it's full state.

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