List of Early Trauma Questions

• Did something traumatic happen while your mother was pregnant with you?

• Was she highly anxious, depressed, or stressed?

• Were your parents having difficulties in their relationship during the pregnancy?

• Did you experience a difficult birth?

• Were you born premature?

• Did your mother experience postpartum depression?

• Were you separated from your mother shortly after birth?

• Were you adopted?

• Did you experience a trauma or a separation from your mother during the first three years of life?

• Were you or your mother ever hospitalized and forced to be apart (maybe you spent time in an incubator, or had your tonsils removed or some other medical procedure, or your mother needed to have surgery or experienced a complication from a pregnancy, etc.)?

• Did your mother experience a trauma or emotional turmoil during your first three years of life?

• Did your mother lose a child or pregnancy before you were born?

• Was your mother’s attention pulled to a trauma involving one of your siblings (a late-term miscarriage, a stillbirth, a death, a medical emergency, etc.) ?