Our #Dublin #LTB20 schedule is now looking as follows⤵️ Location at The Gresham Hotel - Fathers Mental Health UK - Toni Harman - Ms. T - Elaine Coote (was Hanzak) - Birthrights with more to be announced... Make sure to buy your tickets now⤵️ letstalkbirth.com #letstalkbirth20

Last day of Maternal Mental Health Week we are sharing the story of our CEO Maria, from Dr Raja Gangopadhyay IFWIP with artwork from @BenjaminMurphy0 ifwip.org/the-blogless-m… #nowmorethanever #maternalmhmatters #supportingmumsduringdifficulttimes #peersupport PMHP UK

It was great working with Judy Shakespeare Royal College of General Practitioners and Emily Finch NHS Maudsley RCPsych Addictions Faculty to produce this The BMJ practice pointer on substance use in pregnancy RCPsych Perinatal Women in Mind UK @SWMH_IoPPN Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience HSPRD IOPPN IFWIP The Marcé Society. bmj.com/content/369/bm…

Here we @SWMH_IoPPN HSPRD IOPPN discuss the implications of a recent study published in BJOG: increased risk of postnatal depression following severe obstetric lacerations in women with low resilience obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111… The Marcé Society Women in Mind UK IFWIP

"Depression and stress are major contributors to the healthy behaviors of pregnant women, especially in terms of physical activity, nutrition, and weight gain during pregnancy." ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

"Measuring well-being in pregnancy is an important step in understanding the potential physical, psychological and social benefits of pregnancy and in understanding how well-being can be enhanced for women and their families at this important life stage" pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28376697/

"current research underscores that the first 1000 days of life (from conception up to two years of life) are crucial for the prevention of adulthood diseases" #pregnancy #Wellbeing #healthylifestyle ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

"There is a growing appreciation of interventions including elements of health psychology and behaviour change techniques (BCTs) in supporting health professionals to guide mothers in adapting a healthy lifestyle" ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

"Pregnancy is a time of significant change which can elevate stress levels and increase responsivity to external stressors" #pregnancy #Wellbeing #wellness #stress ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

"Foetal programming” refers to the imprinting of the foetus in the womb and in the perinatal period through various influences, resulting in the increased appearance of diseases in adolescence and adulthood, such as cardiovascular or metabolic diseases" ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

"Mindfulness approaches, now widely disseminated, can alleviate symptoms of both chronic and acute pain and improve psychological adjustment, suggesting potential benefit when applied to childbirth education." #pregnancy #Mindfulness ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

"As breast-feeding reduces maternal risk for breast cancer, ovarian cancer, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease — in addition to benefitting infant health — support for this practice must remain a public health priority, even during the global pandemic." jwatch.org/na52290/2020/0…

No one ever makes enough of the maternal benefits of breastfeeding! It’s all always about the baby.

Pre-print with Mental Health Policy Research Unit UCL Psychiatry Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience HSPRD IOPPN @SWMH_IoPPN Challenges and opportunities of the COVID-19 pandemic for perinatal mental health care: a mixed methods study of mental health care staff medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

Mindfulness Based Childbirth & Parenting (MBCP) course "is a promising antenatal intervention that can be feasibly implemented within NHS which might have the potential to impact upon parental mental health...." pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29843001/

Compassion is "the capacity to meet pain with kindness, empathy, equanimity, and patience" (Feldman & Kuyken, 2011)

Do you feel there is a need for a structured Lifestyle improvement programme specific to Pregnancy to improve health & wellbeing and reduce risk of Pregnancy complications?

It was inspirational to hear yesterday how the frontline NHS staff are transforming patient care & services through innovation, keeping in mind patient safety & experience. Fascinating work & thanks Tony Young Roy Lilley 💙 for such a brilliant event.

"Babies born to women in the most deprived areas are twice as likely to be stillborn and are at a 73% excess risk of neonatal death, compared to women living in least deprived area." rcm.org.uk/media-releases…