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Maternal Mental Health Awareness Week 2023

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Laura Dickerson
- 5 min
Life After Birth: a real account of the transition to motherhood after birth trauma
January 1st 2022. I’m about to swim at a cold water charity event to raise money for maternal mental health. Water temperature 14...

Dr Andrew Mayers
- 8 min
Why Maternal Mental Health Matters
This week (2-8th May) is Maternal Mental Health Awareness Week – a week-long campaign dedicated to talking about mental illness while...

Kathryn Di Virgilio
- 3 min
It’s OK not to find parenthood blissful (dealing with shame)
Motherhood comes with a lot of expectations. The image that so many women have is of a content and happy mum cradling a sleeping baby....


Scott Mair
- 5 min
A dad’s experience of postnatal depression
My experience of becoming a dad was an absolute rollercoaster - very difficult, anxious pregnancy and traumatic birth, mixed with sheer...


Emma Jane Unsworth
- 6 min
Extract from After the Storm: Post-Natal Depression and the Utter Weirdness of New Motherhood
Photo Credit:Thomas S.G. Farnetti/Wellcome Collection People say that with postnatal depression you feel numb, nothing, towards the baby....


Rebecca Oxtoby
- 4 min
Bex’s maternity-leave diary and her response, one year later...
Hi, I’m Bex. I know guest blogs don’t typically start with a self-introduction, but I’d feel as though I threw you right in if I didn’t...


Three ways to reframe your insecurities as a mother
In a world where picture perfect families are what we are told we should aspire to; day to day motherhood is far from picture perfect. It...


Silke Thistlewood
- 6 min
Loving kindness phrases and soothing touch for mums
We all have a tendency to be really harsh to ourselves in the way that we talk to ourselves and this is often amplified in motherhood. ...
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