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Avoiding trauma in the delivery room and/or recognizing and managing it in the maternity period: how to do it?

Part 1 : Trauma: definition and symptoms. The neurobiology of trauma in mother and child : the 10 survival responses and the WoT. Timeline of trauma and types of trauma : PTSD and C-PTSD, attachment trauma, developmental trauma, secondary trauma, suffering-to-suffering. Comorbidity of trauma and depression.

Part 2: Trauma prevention during pregnancy. Questioning previous trauma. Suffering-to-suffering treatment. Trauma Screening Questionnaire. Realistic expectations. Mother midwife partnership. Trauma in the delivery room. PEH interventions: The Squirrel and The Golden Hour. Ethical conduct in the delivery room. Secondary traumatization.

Parts 3 and 4: Trauma in Childbirth. PTS(D) interventions in mother and child: guidelines and Best Practices. Birth narrative, 3-fold question, 4-field technique, EGB, affect regulation, Still from T, Progressive Counting. The section: "Concrete tools for babies with birth stress: insights, tip and tricks" will be provided by Kaatje Keppens (parent-baby coach and lecturer of midwifery Thomas More).

In this training you will learn to recognize and manage traumatic and post-traumatic stress before, during and after childbirth.