Timeline for Question about Abortion Survivors and Trauma
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| Sep 11 at 22:28 | comment | added | Nosajimiki | "There's a reason that lots of mothers who want successful children play relaxing music to their babies and try to stay in a good mood and do nice things and don't try to abort their fetuses." <- snark aside, there is actually a lot of insight in this statement. The Abortion itself is just going to be one of many comorbid prenatal factors that could affect the person's development. A mother who feels constant fear, pain, and resentment during pregnancy can impact the development at every stage of gestation. | |
| Jul 1, 2021 at 21:02 | comment | added | Nepene Nep | OP is writing about someone who was impacted by it, hence why I didn't write a response about people who had traumatic childhood experiences and were fine. | |
| Jul 1, 2021 at 19:15 | comment | added | user3067860 | As a counterpoint, there are a lot of people who had some kind of infancy trauma who aren't particularly impacted by it (my foot was nearly bitten off by a dog when I was an infant, I had a lot of stitches and permanently have a really big scar, as an adult I adore dogs). Even in modern times, the children's hospitals are packed full. Historically it was even worse, and medical treatment (when it existed) was even more traumatizing than it is today. | |
| Jul 1, 2021 at 9:30 | comment | added | Nepene Nep | Glad to give you a productive line of inquiry. | |
| Jul 1, 2021 at 2:15 | vote | accept | cal | ||
| Jul 1, 2021 at 2:15 | comment | added | cal | It seems trauma at childbirth and in infancy can possibly affect us more than I'd thought. Here are some interesting reads (not necessarily peer reviewed studies of course...but it's important to take many different angles into consideration):lorricraig.com/psychologist/general-psychology/… and rebekahsprings.com/new-blog/trauma-in-infancy | |
| Jul 1, 2021 at 2:06 | comment | added | cal | @Otkin, I understand what you're saying...but think that this answer was still very helpful. The study of mice was relevant, as was the prenatal study, in regards to my question. This answer also helped me figure out what sort of questions to research...and I've found asking the right questions is half the battle haha! | |
| Jun 30, 2021 at 19:19 | comment | added | Otkin | There is nothing in both of your sources that supports your contention 'This is fairly normal'. The first source states that mice exhibit higher anxiety and fear after an early trauma (not prenatal or birth trauma), but does not imply a causative relationship with PTSD. The second source has even fewer conclusive findings, moreover, the researchers did not examine parenting styles at all (they mention that these styles may play an important role). | |
| Jun 30, 2021 at 14:42 | comment | added | StephenG - Help Ukraine | @NepeneNep Fair enough. No offense intended. | |
| Jun 30, 2021 at 14:39 | comment | added | Nepene Nep | Human experimentation, especially stuff like traumatizing fetuses to see what happens, is generally illegal, and so non human studies are useful. Anyway, OP didn't say a ptsd diagnosis, they said ptsd like symptoms. I linked a study on that which noted the poor temperament of infants who had been in stressful situations. | |
| Jun 30, 2021 at 14:30 | comment | added | StephenG - Help Ukraine | The prenatal study was on rats not humans and I consider it highly dubious. If you have evidence of accepted diagnosis of PTSD as a result of prenatal only trauma please post it. The study claiming PTSD can exist without memory has two flaws : (1) it is clear that an extreme traumatizing event or events is still required and (2) in most (possibly all) cases the family situations were such that early childhood was likely extremely traumatizing anyway and proper account of this is not taken as PTSD can be the result of an accumulation of experiences, not just a single extreme one. | |
| Jun 30, 2021 at 14:16 | comment | added | cal | Thank you, this is very helpful. Sorry I had to bring up such a dark subject. | |
| Jun 30, 2021 at 14:10 | history | answered | Nepene Nep | CC BY-SA 4.0 |