pregnancy

Osteopatic prenatal care: emotional listening

by Fabìola Marelli

In Osteopathy we are generally led to classify prenatal trauma as a high-impact physical-body shock.

Since in the fetus the emotional and cognitive abilities are not developed as the sensitive ones, it is at the level of the primitive brain that it is able to recognize and distinguish the different types of energy that surround it.

The fetus is viscerally affected by the mother's state of mind. When he feels he is not wanted, he is stressed, very stressed, with no way out.

In him ( it? ) The sympathetic branch of the autonomic nervous system (excitability) and less the parasympathetic (tranquility) is best represented.

The level of physical excitement is so high that it cannot be managed.

It is as if his primitive brain, with all the wisdom of a billion years of evolution, was fragmenting in an attempt to manage the discomfort.

If a mother does not want the baby, the wall of the uterus will not be favorable for the fetus, which will begin to disorganize itself trying to move away from that wall, which has become an enemy, and will tighten the area of ​​the umbilical cord so as to exclude the energy of that reluctant mother, or any other energy or substance she doesn't want.

If a mother does not want the child she will try to avoid even feeling, and the fetus will perceive it: communication is in the realm of sensitivity.

It is a sensitive communication that takes into account the telepathic, physical, biochemical and tissue aspects.

On the other hand, what do we do when we want to forget about pain in a certain part of the body, or we don't want to feel a certain part of the body? We start to cool that part, to make it lose heat, and therefore sensitivity.

Can I get away from the mother that causes me anxiety? Unfortunately no.

The fetus is completely integrated into the mother's energy system, totally dependent on it. But nevertheless, he tries.

Mother and "child" at that stage are one, so the fetus that tries to get away from its mother actually tries to get away even from itself.

The only way to survive is to go deeper and deeper into its core.

As an adult he will take on what has been called an existential mental structure (see Lisbeth Marcher ), that is, he will be an extremely intellectual, cerebral person, with a "distracted" look, the appearance of "nobody's son" and difficulties in managing feelings. From an osteopathic point of view, in observation it could highlight a tendency to dorsal column kyphosis and lenses corrected by vision, while during palpation we could find dysfunctions in the abdominal region.

If instead the fetus feels wanted but the mother lives an intense stress during pregnancy, then it will close in an emotional type defense.

It is a different survival strategy, which is called an emotional existential structure .

The fetus can therefore misunderstand, misunderstand events to the point of having the perception of an attack on its life, develop the feeling of not having been desired, become an adult with an existential emotional structure that will make it sensitive, deep in feelings, but with the feeling that the world, people and animals can disappear from his life at any time.

Another symptom of prenatal trauma is the anxiety that is unleashed when unexpectedly we find ourselves faced with something new, good or bad.

When you receive good news, how do you feel? Excited.

When do you get bad news, how do you feel? Excited.

Stimulation comes to the primitive brain which wonders where the danger is coming from.

That's why you can't focus or focus on what you're doing: the primitive brain has "knocked" prenatal anxiety and is telling you that the danger is somewhere else. It is that feeling that usually makes you say "today I feel anxious" and that makes you feel relief and at the same time absolves you even if you have been inconclusive all day long .

It is anxiety about death.

It is not an emotional anxiety.

It is an anxiety that comes from the primitive nucleus. Everything that does not come from a thought of the recent part of the brain derives from this very early experience.

It is the primitive part of the brain that can afford to continue searching for danger thanks to the flexibility with which the autonomic nervous system faces the various levels of energy or excitement.

A traumatized physiology is always the effect of an early hyperstimulation that could not be managed.

The primitive brain that governs all the autonomic processes (NdA: of the autonomic nervous system ), damaged by the trauma, is no longer able to return to homeostasis due to the added value of energy forfeited by the SNA, which, despite trying to disorganize for defend themselves, it is no longer able to return to the status quo ante.

Do you know why it always feels excited to go to the beach or to the mountains and stop?

Because the rhythm of the sea and the breath of the mountain are so overwhelming that the mechanism that makes us resist self-control is driven by the natural rhythm and begins to regulate itself .

In the trauma all connections are broken.

The child who will come is in a world, the womb, where there is no temporal or spatial logic.

It is in a place of infinite creativity, which was also yours and my creativity .

It is precisely this connection to creativity that is broken in the trauma.

In the healing process, at the primitive level of reptiles, there is no logic .

Osteopatic prenatal care, the osteopathic treatment for prenatal traumas, is dialogue through tactile stimulation with the tissues or, even better, with the emotional skin of our pregnant patient, in order to establish a connection with her creative and physiological resources so that no trace of trauma remains in the child to come.

Fabìola Marelli - Osteopata DO

I written to the Osteopathic Register of Italy - No. 268 and to the ASL of Como. He works as a freelancer and researcher. Lecturer and lecturer in the master. Author of texts and treatises on Music and Osteopathy.

Administrator and professor of the School of Osteopathy CRESO - Osteopathic Research and Studies Center Srl . (Www.cresonline.it)

Director of the CRESO Edizioni publishing house .