🌟 Calling women who have received EMDR therapy for birth-related trauma!🌟

Your journey matters & could help shape vital research. If you answer ‘Yes’ to the 3 questions in the poster below & are willing to share your experience, we’d love to hear from you. DM for details!

'Every stroke, pedal, and step I take is fuelled by the passion to make a real difference in the lives of mothers battling mental health challenges.' Our heartfelt thanks to Hannah who's taking on a triathlon next month for the MMHA. Read more: gofundme.com/f/triathlon-fo… #RunForMMHA

We've teamed up with Sport for Charity to offer places at some of the UK's best loved running events, including 5k, 10k, half or full marathon options. Find the event for you, lace up your trainers and help us make a difference for mums, babies and families: maternalmentalhealthalliance.org/get-involved/f…

This #infantmentalhealthawarenessweek we are speaking up for babies. We call on policy makers to keep babies (and their mothers!) in mind.

More than 1,000 pregnant women & new mums responded to our 2024 annual survey on the Cost of Living on Maternity Leave. You can read our blog about the survey here bit.ly/45EhBUR Women's Budget Group UNISON - UK's largest union Unite the union: join a union GMB Union PSA_UnionofChoice PregnantThenScrewed

📢 We Need Your Help! 📢

Please share our Dads Survey with a Scottish Dad you know!👨‍👧‍👦

It only takes a few minutes but helps us amplify the voices of dads and highlight what matters to them most 🙌

⬇️ Share with a dad you know!
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This report speaks to the experiences of many women we support. We urgently need to improve understanding, tackle stigma & discrimination, & ensure every pregnant woman & mother has the advocacy support she needs to navigate social care involvement. birthcompanions.org.uk/resources/birt…

With #FathersDay coming up, we asked dads who'd been through pregnancy complications or loss to share their messages of support & advice for other dads.

Thank you to everyone who responded. Read the messages: bit.ly/3XhJsYs

To all dads & partners, we're #InThisWithYou .

We're looking for research teams to contribute to Healthcare MDPI Special Issue on Perinatal Mental Health Care
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Theo Clarke BirthTrauma Royal College of Midwives 💙 RoyalCollegeObsGyn Maternal Mental Health Alliance Mumsnet Rosie Duffield 4/ As far as I know Baroness Gohir OBE is still waiting for her recommendations to be implemented. Govt should have done much better. V much better & now I expect ALL opposition parties of all colours to put maternity at the top of their priorities for the NHS.Everyone has to be born

Theo Clarke BirthTrauma Royal College of Midwives 💙 RoyalCollegeObsGyn Maternal Mental Health Alliance Mumsnet Rosie Duffield 3/ As Chair of Health Select Comm Jeremy Hunt v clear the £ needed for maternity care must be kept under review? Not done as far as I know Sands - baby loss charity 💙🧡 & Tommy's have now done it.In 2022 Baroness Gohir OBE published ‘Invisible’ - the experience of 1000 Muslim women….

Theo Clarke BirthTrauma Royal College of Midwives 💙 RoyalCollegeObsGyn Maternal Mental Health Alliance Mumsnet Rosie Duffield 2/ England significantly short of midwives & all perinatal medical rotas I’m aware of have gaps. Health visiting colleagues report services are ‘vaporised’ meaning they are not able to give the care new mothers need. A recently Sands - baby loss charity 💙🧡 & Tommy's report recalculated the £ needed

Theo Clarke BirthTrauma Royal College of Midwives 💙 RoyalCollegeObsGyn Maternal Mental Health Alliance Mumsnet Rosie Duffield 1/ Thanks Theo for everything you have done. It’s 25 months since Sajid Javid - then Sec of State who gave Independent Maternity Review NUH Trust a lot of time promised ‘swift’ action with the Immediate & Essential Actions. Unfortunately since he left we have much less progress to report: maybe 50% of the £

Today I am calling for all political parties to add a commitment to tackling #BirthTrauma into their manifestos. It was clear from my own experience and the public evidence we received to our recent cross party national inquiry, which I previously chaired in Parliament, that

This week is Infant Mental Health Awareness Week, co-ordinated by MMHA member Parent-Infant Foundation. Find out how you can get involved and download a copy of the 'Speak up for babies' toolkit at parentinfantfoundation.org.uk/our-work/imhaw/. #IMHAW2024

It's Men's Mental Health Month 💙
Important to remember that struggles with (in)fertility, reproduction & pathways to parenthood aren't just women's issues. See here & below for some resources, but please do add more...
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We will be sharing our research journey as part of ROSHNI-2, a national study aimed at understanding and addressing the rising incidences of post-natal depression among British South Asian women. Join us:

🗓️Friday 14 June
🕙10am - 4pm
🏦Kanaris Theatre, Manchester Museum