I Can’t Stop Reliving My Traumatic Birth

Every night for months, this moment would play on loop in my head as I tried to sleep. I’m pretty sure I had – and still have – undiagnosed post-traumatic stress disorder, following my emergency caesarean section and subsequent haemorrhage. A quick google of the symptoms, and I’m absolutely textbook: intense physical reactions to reminders of the event (think pounding heart, nausea, muscle tension, sweating), panic attacks, difficulty concentrating, being easily moved to tears, difficulty falling asleep, flashbacks.