Pregnancy and motherhood is a beautiful and joyous phase in life, but it is not without difficulties. The event of childbirth can be especially distressing due to various emotional, physical, and psychological factors leading to a phenomenon known as “birth trauma.” Birth trauma has been on the rise over the past decades and can be damaging to the wellbeing of the mother and child. In order to gain insight, the current study explored birth trauma’s relation to the mother’s childhood trauma and postpartum maternal confidence/self-efficacy.
