Postnatal Depression

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...

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...

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....

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...

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....

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...

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. ...