The mother wound can negatively impact your ability to get pregnant by priming you to internalise the trauma narratives of your mother and grandmother. This can lead to believing that you’ll struggle to or can’t conceive, have intensely painful and even life threatening births, doubt your ability to be a good enough mother, or even reject motherhood entirely.

Pregnancy blocks are self-protective strategies are formed in response to acute pain, fear or trauma, and they live deep in the crevices the subconscious mind and the emotional body. They’re coping mechanisms that are part of your survival instinct.

Obsessing about getting pregnant is driven by the fear that you can't or won't get pregnant.