Laura Dickerson5 minLife After Birth: a real account of the transition to motherhood after birth traumaJanuary 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 Mayers8 minWhy Maternal Mental Health MattersThis week (2-8th May) is Maternal Mental Health Awareness Week – a week-long campaign dedicated to talking about mental illness while...
Kathryn Di Virgilio3 minIt’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 Mair5 minA dad’s experience of postnatal depressionMy experience of becoming a dad was an absolute rollercoaster - very difficult, anxious pregnancy and traumatic birth, mixed with sheer...
Emma Jane Unsworth6 minExtract 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 Oxtoby4 minBex’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...
Laura Abba, Cognitive Hypnotherapist & Maternal Coach4 minThree ways to reframe your insecurities as a motherIn 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 Thistlewood6 minLoving kindness phrases and soothing touch for mumsWe 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. ...