Marinating In A Trauma Womb – Milica Jelenic

The research that I found is from the Oregon Health and Science University, in case you guys are looking for where is this referencing coming from.

We will be talking about how different things like fears, anxieties, and stress responses can actually go right through from the mother, right through the placenta into the fetus.

It's kinda crazy.

We're gonna start by looking at how stress hormones cross the placenta, and one of the reasons I wanna say why we're talking about this is because I do have so many people who will come in and they're like, "I don't have any trauma." I'm like, "Hmm, your body says otherwise." And sometimes it's looking at...

And when I say come in, I mean as a holistic health practitioner.And as a sex and intimacy coach, I have people either physically come in to see me, or often I have Zoom, um, distance sessions.

So when people actually engage with my services, I find that people are not necessarily aware of the level of trauma that their body has been basically tr- struggling with.

Could be since in utero.

Could be.

And sometimes people are like, "Well, nothing ever bad happened to me." I'm like, "Okay.

Do you know anything about, like, y- your birth ex- " "Oh, yeah, my birth experience was terrible.

My mom almost died.

I almost died.

My mom fell down the stairs when she was pregnant with me, and then she was on bed rest." And, like, you get these stories, and you're like, "Oh, okay, so you actually did have trauma." You had trauma to the point where it ran right through your body, and that became your normal.

'Cause you've had that in your body your entire life, you don't actually probably know the difference.

You don't actually know what it's like to be calm and to not have the trauma running through your body, and you don't know what it's like not to actually have your nervous system be calm.

So you're either on fight or flight, or your body's gone to freeze.

Either way, you could be, you know, being sympathetic dominant or parasympathetic dominant, and your body does not know what to do with that.

So we're gonna be talking and exploring about how trauma can be transmitted via in utero, and also how a mother's physical, emotional health, as well as environmental experiences during pregnancy can influence the nervous system of the unborn baby.

So that could have been you in utero.

It could be if you are carrying a baby or had a child.

This could be a lot of the explanation of what could be going on with you, or if you're listening and you've carried a child, it could be whoever you, you carried.

So we're gonna be looking at things like epigenetics, developmental psychology, neuroscience, and a bunch of other things through this work today.

But I think it's really key and important to just simplify it as simple as I can, which is why I use the reference of the seed being planted into, um ...

You know, if it, if you're trying to germinate a seed in something toxic, it's gonna struggle.

So if we're trying to germinate a, you know, a baby, a zygote inside of something that's completely toxic emotionally, physically, all these other things going on, then it's gonna be a really hard developmental journey to growth.