MENTAL HEALTH: THE QUIET REVOLUTION
What is this quiet revolution in perinatal mental health? Anyone who knows me will tell you I have a real fascination for the history of health and medicine, particularly when it comes to birth and...
View ArticleWhy are our birth stories so important?
Ever stopped to think why our birth stories are so important? No matter how many years that pass, we will always remember the day our children came into the world. The number 37 bus was stuck in thick...
View ArticleWhat do parents really want from a debrief or listening service?
I started surveying parents about their debriefing experiences about a year ago. My reason for the survey was because as a therapist working with traumatised parents I often heard that they had under...
View ArticleWhat will we learn from the Telford and Shrewsbury maternity scandal?
It was very upsetting to read about one of the biggest maternity scandals ever at Shrewsbury and Telford hospital trust last week. 40 years of ‘toxic’ culture within the maternity services there has...
View ArticleIs ‘resilience training’ really the answer to quell the record numbers of...
There are record numbers of nurses and midwives leaving the NHS and they are stating intolerable stress and pressure as the reasons, according to separate reports by the RCM and RCN.* The numbers of...
View ArticleAre you are ‘A Fixer’, ‘A Denialist’ or ‘A Freeloader’? Which kind of birth...
I will be completely honest with you, when I first decided to study Clinical Hypnotherapy, it was because of my own rampant problems with anxiety and addiction. However rather than face, what I...
View ArticleWould you know how to recognise Perinatal Anxiety (PNA) in parents?
Research suggests that PNA is as prevalent as PND in new parents, effecting as many as 20% of parents in the first year. Yet, despite this many HCP lack the knowledge to identify anxiety in new parents...
View Article‘My baby hates me!’
As strange and even ridiculous as this statement sounds it’s a more common thought to occupy the mind of new parents than you might imagine. It might be tempting if you hear a parent say this to...
View ArticleHave we been saying thank you when we really meant sorry?
As the NHS turns 72 this month I think we need to talk about where it is heading, what our expectations are and how we will become increasingly disappointed as service users if we don’t wake up to...
View ArticleWorld Mental Health Day 2020 – An ordinary story of struggle with mental...
If I am honest the signs of an emotional breakdown were there long before I found out about my pregnancy. A 10 year career in media to that point had left me spiritually voided and empty of much...
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