On Monday February 20 2017 I am doing a fitness challenge. I am doing this challenge to celebrate life: my own, and that of my son, because those lives might both have ended that day. I am doing a fitness challenge because there was a time, three years ago, when for nearly a week my […] Read more…
Another baby who does not get to develop, grow, thrive, live. Another pregnancy ending in surgery. ____________________ At the end of June I was delighted to discover I was pregnant! This baby was so wanted, so tried for, and conceived naturally. We were over the moon. It didn’t take long for the nausea to kick […] Read more…
The first Nobody’s Patient pilot workshop was held last Friday, and was a resounding success. Nobody’s Patient is an extension of the maternity experience (#MatExp) project, looking at three key groups: Women who are seriously ill during pregnancy and birth; Families of babies who need neonatal or paediatric care; Families whose babies sadly die before, […] Read more…
We need to improve perinatal mental health support. With mental ill health remaining a taboo subject, experiencing mental ill health carrying a stigma, and mental ill health constantly misunderstood this all mental health services suffer from chronic underfunding and insufficient investment in terms of dedicated resources. Perinatal mental health is too often at the bottom […] Read more…
What a difference a change makes! Reading that you are justified in thinking “Duh, it’s hardly a change if it doesn’t make a difference.” You’d be right! What I’m meaning, though, is what a change. A transformation. A pretty much 360 degree turnaround. What I am talking about is a visit to the hospital this […] Read more…