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Examples of symptoms of childbirth-related post-traumatic stress disorder include intrusive symptoms such as flashbacks and nightmares, as well as symptoms of avoidance (including amnesia for the whole or parts of the event), uncomfortable sexual intimacy, discomfort being touched, abstinence, fear of pregnancy, and avoidance of birth- and pregnancy-related issues.
"Historic childbirth" is a term used to describe the birth of children before the introduction of effective pain relief in 1847. [4] During that time psychiatric complications were clearly described, well recognized and common in countries with the best health services.
Women with PTSD are thought to be at a higher risk of prenatal loss, perinatal loss, pregnancy complications, ectopic pregnancy, preterm birth and growth abnormalities in the fetus. [ 3 ] PTSD in a mother is suspected to increase the risk of autism , hypertension , cardiovascular diseases , and type 2 diabetes in a child.
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The Trauma of Birth, New York: Richard Brunner; Verny, Thomas (1981). The Secret Life of the Unborn Child, Dell 1982 reprint: ISBN 0-440-50565-8, see also the professional organization founded by Verny to train professionals, the Association for Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Health, APPPAH, at www.birthpsychology.com.
These include a negative subjective experience of childbirth, maternal mental health (prenatal depression, perinatal anxiety, acute postpartum depression, and history of psychological problems), history of trauma, complications with delivery and baby (for example emergency cesarean section or NICU admittance), and a low level of social support.
Birth trauma may refer to: Childbirth-related posttraumatic stress disorder, psychological trauma to the mother following childbirth; Birth trauma (physical), physical trauma to the infant following childbirth, as described at ICD-10 codes P10-P15; Birth trauma (psychoanalysis), a concept in Freudian psychoanalysis described by Otto Rank
Birth injuries encompass any systemic damages incurred during delivery (hypoxic, toxic, biochemical, infection factors, etc.), but "birth trauma" focuses largely on mechanical damage. Caput succedaneum , bruises , bleeding along the displacements of cranial bones, and subcapsular hematomas of the liver are among reported birth injuries.