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

stress only added on to the mental health issues I was already experiencing (which, for reference, was maternal

me , but it was a vital one, because my family needed the money, and we couldn’t make the rent on my maternity

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

It coexisted with gestures of care, with material comfort, with moments that could easily be mistaken Phone calls with my maternal aunt, who reminded me that I could build a life beyond this one.

After a short maternity leave, I decided that I had to leave, because I could no longer commit to full-time

Instead of bringing actual clues and materials to their key hideout spot, they do the detective work environment on my laptop, and we jokingly said that by the end of this, I would have a joint PhD in maternal

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

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

well-studied example of how a foetus’ environment in pregnancy can alter their epigenome relates to maternal