Motherhood and birth don’t just change your schedule - they literally rewire your entire nervous system.
During pregnancy, your body is flooded with hormones like oxytocin and progesterone that soften your tissues, open your heart, and prepare your brain to attune deeply to another human. Then birth itself, whether empowering or traumatic, activates the most primal layers of your brain: the brainstem and limbic system, where survival instincts live.
That’s why so many women feel hyper-alert, emotionally raw, or anxious after birth. Your nervous system is doing what God designed it to do. To stay attuned to protect this tiny life, but what no one tells you is that without regulation and support, this state of constant vigilance can leave you stuck in sympathetic overdrive: always “on,” bracing, overstimulated, and unable to rest.
Birth cracks you open physically and spiritually, and it can also dysregulate you. But that doesn’t mean you’re broken. It means your system needs time, safety, and somatic repair. This is why practices like breathwork, co-regulation, and trauma-informed bodywork matter. Because what gets awakened in motherhood isn’t just love - it’s your nervous system asking: Am I still safe now that everything has changed?
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