Early motherhood presents a uniquely apt time in which to look at and treat developmental and intergenerationally transmitted trauma. New mothers are vulnerable to passing to their own children the traumas that were passed to them. Psychoanalytic work can help patients understand attachment patterns and history passed down over time. However, if these are preverbal, unsymbolized and live in the body in the form of encoded symptoms, it can be helpful to integrate a somatic modality in order to link the non-verbal and somatic experiences to verbal and emotional language. In this paper, I discuss ways in which I integrate psychoanalytic and somatic treatment approaches in my work with a new mother who carries multiple generations of trauma in her mind and body.