(This blog post is addressing the baby’s perspective) What comes to mind when you think of birth trauma? Perhaps you think of babies with cerebral palsy from oxygen deprivation. Maybe you think of a dislocated shoulder due to forcible removal in the case of shoulder dystocia. Or perhaps just forcep marks that take weeks […]
In my latest hiatus from blogging, I’ve been dealing with some recurring mild depression–something I’ve had all my life, but since it’s never been debilitating and I’ve never been diagnosed or medicated for it, it’s been easy to ignore–attribute to the gray skies here in the Pacific NW, or in other ways rationalize it away. […]