Birth Trauma Awareness Week: We See You, Every Day

This week is Birth Trauma Awareness Week—a time dedicated to shedding light on the very real and often invisible experiences of moms who left the hospital or birthing center carrying more than just a newborn.

For some, birth isn’t just a beautiful beginning. It’s also where trauma began.

And while this week brings a necessary spotlight, the truth is: At Cozy Haven Counseling, we honor and support moms navigating birth trauma every day. Because trauma doesn’t follow a calendar—and neither does healing.

What Birth Trauma Really Looks Like

Birth trauma is more than a complication or emergency. It’s the emotional impact that lingers when something during birth felt scary, violating, or deeply out of control. It’s how your body and brain responded when things didn’t go as planned—and you didn’t feel safe.

Traumatic birth experiences can include:

• Emergency C-sections or unplanned interventions

• Feeling ignored, dismissed, or gaslit by your care team

• Being denied informed consent

• NICU stays or medical trauma for you or your baby

• Fear for your life or your baby’s

• Physical pain or complications that were minimized

• Feeling alone or unsupported during labor and delivery

Postpartum PTSD and symptoms of trauma can show up days, weeks, or even years later. It’s not “all in your head”—it’s in your nervous system. It’s real.

And if any of this sounds like you? You don’t have to explain it away. You get to call it what it is: birth trauma.

Birth Trauma Awareness Week Matters—But So Do You, Every Week

This week gives language to the stories that so often go unheard. It challenges the harmful idea that a “healthy baby” is the only outcome that matters.

But here’s what I want every mom to know:

🧠 Your birth story matters. Your emotional well-being matters. You matter.

Whether your trauma happened two months ago or two years ago, you deserve support. Healing after birth trauma isn’t selfish—it’s necessary. Because trauma doesn’t just impact your memory of birth—it can shape your sense of safety, your connection to your body, your relationship with your baby, and how you move through motherhood.

At Cozy Haven Counseling, this isn’t a “once-a-year” topic. I help women heal from birth trauma and perinatal trauma every single day.

What Therapy with Me Looks Like

Therapy with me is a space where you don’t have to minimize your pain, explain your triggers, or feel like you’re “too much.” I get it. I work specifically with new, expecting, and postpartum moms who are holding more than people around them realize.

Here’s what our work might look like:

🔸 EMDR therapy to help your brain and body safely process traumatic birth memories—without needing to relive them
🔸 IFS (parts work) to honor the protective parts of you that stepped in when things got scary—and help them step back when they’re no longer needed
🔸 Nervous system education and tools to help you feel more grounded, safe, and in control again
🔸 Grief and rage processing, because sometimes healing starts by giving yourself permission to feel it all
🔸 Space for your whole story—not just the “acceptable” parts. We’re not chasing perfection here. Just presence, peace, and power.

You can expect compassion, realness, trauma-informed care, and zero shame. You don’t have to carry your birth story alone anymore. Therapy is where we start unpacking it—together.

You Deserve to Feel Whole Again

Birth can change everything—and when it’s traumatic, it can leave you feeling like a stranger to yourself. Maybe you’ve been quietly carrying the weight of your story, wondering if it even counts as trauma. Maybe you’ve tried to push it down, telling yourself to “just be grateful.” But deep down, something still doesn’t feel right.

Here’s what I want you to know: You’re allowed to feel what you feel. There’s no checklist or timeline for processing trauma. There’s no need to justify your pain or compare it to anyone else’s.

You don’t have to minimize your story. You don’t have to power through it alone. You get to grieve. You get to feel angry. And yes—you get to heal.

Therapy is where that healing begins. Where your birth story is held with care, compassion, and without judgment.
Because you deserve to feel whole again—not just as a mom, but as a human.

Let’s take this journey together! Check out my website and book a free 15 minute consultation with me.

Jasmine Frazier, LMSW