About this event
Maternal Mental Health Awareness Week is a week-long campaign dedicated to talking about mental health problems before, during and after pregnancy.
For more information, visit the Maternal Mental Health Alliance information page.
Contact details
The week is all about:
- Raising public and professional awareness of perinatal mental health problems
- Advocating for women and families impacted
- Changing attitudes
- Helping people access the information, care and support they need to recover
Who is it organised by?
The week is organised and led by Maternal Mental Health Alliance member Perinatal Mental Health Partnership UK (PMHP UK), who launched the first-ever UK Maternal Mental Health Awareness Week in 2017.
Mental health and the journey to parenthood: Kristy's story
9 September 2019
As well as a difficult pregnancy, Kristy felt pressure both to breastfeed and to produce 'the perfect family'. Thanks to the support from her husband and home birth midwives, Kristy sought the help she needed for her mental health.
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