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[Traumatic Birth: Recognition and Prevention]
Kerstin Weidner1, Susan Garthus-Niegel1, Juliane Junge-Hoffmeister1
1Klinik und Poliklinik für Psychotherapie und Psychosomatik, Universitätsklinikum Carl Gustav Carus Dresden, Dresden.
A history of sexual as well as physical or emotional abuse may represent a high-risk factor for difficult pregnancies and birth processes, potentially yielding the development of postpartum posttraumatic stress disorder as well as impaired mother-child attachment. However, birth itself may also be experienced as primarily traumatic, i. e., without having had prior trauma experiences. Difficult and traumatic births may affect midwives and obstetricians, too. This article provides an overview of the prevalence and risk factors of traumatic childbirth as well as the course, consequences, and intervention possibilities.
A history of sexual as well as physical or emotional abuse may represent a high-risk factor for difficult pregnancies and birth processes, potentially yielding the development of postpartum posttraumatic stress disorder as well as impaired mother-child attachment. However, birth itself may also be experienced as primarily traumatic, i. e., without having had prior trauma experiences. Difficult and traumatic births may affect midwives and obstetricians, too. This article provides an overview of the prevalence and risk factors of traumatic childbirth as well as the course, consequences, and intervention possibilities.
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