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The personal, social, and family beliefs around childbirth, often conveyed by narrative on maternity, childbirth, because of personal, social, and family beliefs, often conveyed by the general shared view on maternity Moreover, this evidence is consistent with the experience of women described in our previous blog on the ‘Maternal

In addition, it also lowers maternal depressive symptoms and stress and improves breastfeeding. In fact, maternal contact and touch function to regulate the baby’s stress response, while maternal-baby

Recognition of maternal mental health around pregnancy and birth (the perinatal period) is, thankfully , growing, leading to an increase in evidence-based interventions to prevent maternal mental health crises Paternal Perinatal Mental Health Depression is thought to affect 8% of fathers in the perinatal period But paternal mental health is not just important in its own right. Good paternal mental health can act as a buffer providing protection to infants of mothers suffering

Studies on the effects of parenting have focused primarily on maternal aspects such as postnatal depression Having conducted research to understand the potential impact of maternal stress on children’s neurodevelopment Could the father act as a buffer between maternal depression and child’s neurodevelopment? the father delivered more stimulating activities that the mother couldn’t provide, promoting better maternal However, when family problems are extreme and maternal warmth is very low, this ‘buffering’ effect is

My research in perinatal mental health began with exploring maternal mental health assessment within maternity (where standardised questions are routinely used at the initial antenatal appointment). Venturing into paternal (fathers’) mental health research, it was easy to interpret the differences between Who is included by terms like ‘maternal mental health’ and ‘paternal mental health’? health visiting and infant mental health services) but most are focused around the birthing parent (e.g. maternity

Postnatal depression It has been found that PND has implications not only for maternal health and wellbeing Only one study has investigated the biological effects of maternal singing groups, which found a decrease

I had planned to take a long maternity leave and perhaps write freelance from time to time to top the been home for the past five months (as he works in a high-risk job), and we couldn’t survive on my maternity I looked at other new mums I knew and longed to be on maternity leave like they were, constantly comparing

This is the second week of our Maternal Mental Health series, which is dedicated to perinatal Obsessive-compulsive OCD Awareness Week, we are publishing two blogs, one from Maria Bavetta, co-founder of the charity Maternal

According to the charity Maternal OCD, until recently, OCD in pregnancy and after having a baby has received According to Maternal OCD, the increase in the incidence of OCD is likely to be related to the fact that

how do occupational therapists work with mothers and their babies Welcome to the fourth week of our Maternal We do baking, cooking meals, running, cycling, creative writing, maternal journaling, and gardening,

working as a psychological researcher with individuals facing infertility treatments at the Institute for Maternal

According to a 2015 World Health Organisation report on Afghanistan, the maternal mortality ratio has these numbers are still incredibly high: the equivalent figures in the UK, for example, are 8–10 for maternal forth to Afghanistan since 2004, involved in humanitarian activity, organising the delivery of donated material We helped fundraising in the UK and supporting the transport of humanitarian material and deliveries