birth trauma

birth trauma
birth trauma n the physical injury or emotional shock sustained by an infant in the process of birth

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1. an injury to the infant received in or due to the process of being born; called also birth injury. 2. in some psychiatric theories, the psychic shock produced in an infant by the experience of being born.

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