Decoded: The First Year | Episode 7 | Birth Trauma That Doesn’t Show Up Right Away | DRSCL

Decoded: The First Year · Sep 10, 2025 · 8m

Today we’re digging into a topic that a lot of people avoid — or at best, misunderstand:

Birth trauma.

Not the kind that shows up in the delivery room as an emergency.

I’m talking about the kind that shows up later —

👉 in your baby’s body

👉 in their movement

👉 in their sleep

👉 or in the way they settle (or don’t)

So let’s talk about what birth trauma actually is — what it’s not — and how you can recognise the signs without spiralling.

Now, before we move on, I want to acknowledge that there is one final and super important way that birth trauma shows up later

👉 and that is in your body as the…