Category " Postnatal Illness"

Sometimes in life, the most upsetting and traumatic periods of your life can ultimately lead to the most incredible moments.  I’d love to take you on a journey with me as an example of this. It may help to inspire you if you are currently less happy or healthy as you would wish to be. […]

It is widely accepted that the death of a loved one is a major cause of pain, hardship and stress for those left behind – yet why are we still not speaking loud enough to prevent the avoidable deaths by suicide? The latest MBRRACE report released a few days ago highlighted that In 2020, women […]

My passion for perinatal mental health has returned (my previous blog explains why it had subsided) and I’d like to share some updates from the last couple of weeks. I joined a Forum for the Institute of Health Visiting  (iHV) last week in my role as a Champion for the Maternal Mental Health Alliance. It […]

It has been a long time since I was moved to tears about what happened to my family and me in the first year of my son’s life. Yet cry I did when watching an episode of ‘Location, Location, Location’  last week, on Thursday October 10th.  Why would seeing a happy new family, installed in […]

Last week I was very pleased to speak at the Royal College of Midwives annual conference #rcmconf2019, again at a British Journal of Midwifery study day and ended the week by watching the film ‘Irene’s Ghost’. I went into the weekend feeling encouraged about perinatal mental health and reminded of how important it is. Let me […]