029: Anna Verwaal: How Birth Imprints and Shapes Your Baby's Psychological Health

<p><strong>Guest: </strong>Anna Verwaal, a maternal-child health nurse, conscious conception & birth consultant, and birth & postpartum doula instructor from the Netherlands who has worked in the US for the last 25 years.</p> <p><strong>In this episode, we will cover:</strong></p> <ol> <li style="font-weight: 400;">how the mother's stress hormones cross the placenta and affect the baby's physical development</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">the research that shows how babies can remember their birth</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">how these "womb imprints" and "birth imprints" can affect the baby's psychological expression as children and as adults</li> </ol> <p><strong>Resources mentioned in the conversation:</strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;">Anna's website: <strong><a href="http://www.FromWombToWorld.com">www.FromWombToWorld.com</a></strong></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">Anna's TED Talk on the psychological impact of birth: <strong><a href="http://www.fromwombtoworld.com/">TEDTalk</a></strong></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">the Association of Pre and Perinatal Psychology & Health - <strong><a href="http://www.birthpsychology.com/" target="_blank">www.Birthpsychology.com</a></strong></li> </ul> <p><strong>Anna Verwaal's BIO</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Anna is a maternal-child health nurse, conscious conception & birth consultant, birth & postpartum doula instructor, UCLA certified lactation educator, and birth photographer from the Netherlands who has worked in the US for the last 25 years.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">After a long nursing career in various obstetrical and home-health settings she preferred to work with families and babies privately and started her own birth consulting practice. </span></p> <p>She currently travels internationally to lecture and teach workshops for birth professionals and doulas about the cellular memory of the birth experience, the physiological & hormonal blueprint for birth & bonding and the deep