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Sarah’s Story: When even suicide feels like it is no longer an option.

There’s peculiar anguish of feeling suicidal whilst pregnant or as a new parent: the shame, the taboo, the bewildering loneliness, the chasm between others’ expectations and what I was feeling inside, the complexity of being the vehicle for another’s life when...

K’s Story: Crippled by anxiety before and after a traumatic birth

by admin | 26, 04, 22 | Mum Stories

As told to Happy Mums, by an Anonymous Mum My maternal mental health began when I regrettably informed close family members as soon as we found out we were expecting. Then came the comments “Be careful before 12 weeks”, “don’t do this, don’t do...

Kylie’s Story: Help is out there, in many forms

by admin | 20, 04, 22 | Mum Stories

While pregnant I was seeing the mental health midwife at my local hospital in Carlisle. She was great and helped to make a plan for as soon as I gave birth. As soon as Lucas was born I started back on my mental health medication, that had been stopped correctly...