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Trudi and I were really impressed by her keen interest in maternal mental health and her knowledge on She wanted to meet experts in the fields of maternal mental health, as well as clinicians and patients She wanted to know more about the consequences of maternal mental problems on children, and about the thousand births per year in the UK — yes, this is in the title — and a quarter of these will be touched by maternal

psychosis risks serious harm for both mother and baby, ranging from difficulty caring for the infant to maternal associated with pre-term birth, stillbirth, increased rates of C-section, poor foetal development, and maternal

Furthermore, there is evidence that these techniques don’t improve maternal and infant outcomes, but In fact, they may lead to premature breastfeeding cessation, increased maternal anxiety, and even possibly approach doesn’t prevent sleep and behavioural problems later in childhood and doesn’t protect against maternal introduction of solids food, the baby starts crawling or walking, or the mother returns to work after maternity

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

And, specifically, the disparity in the quality of maternal health care — including mental health care So each time I see yet another headline, whether in the US or the UK, about a maternal or infant death What do we know about maternal health care in the US? And so, while the overall mortality rate is 17.2 maternal deaths per 100,000 pregnancies — for context , the rate in Sweden is 4 per 100,000 and in South Africa, 119 per 100,000— when maternal ethnicity is

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

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

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

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