January 1st 2022. I’m about to swim at a cold water charity event to raise money for maternal mental health. Water temperature 14...

This week (2-8th May) is Maternal Mental Health Awareness Week – a week-long campaign dedicated to talking about mental illness while...

Motherhood comes with a lot of expectations. The image that so many women have is of a content and happy mum cradling a sleeping baby....

My experience of becoming a dad was an absolute rollercoaster - very difficult, anxious pregnancy and traumatic birth, mixed with sheer...

Photo Credit:Thomas S.G. Farnetti/Wellcome Collection People say that with postnatal depression you feel numb, nothing, towards the baby....

Hi, I’m Bex. I know guest blogs don’t typically start with a self-introduction, but I’d feel as though I threw you right in if I didn’t...

In a world where picture perfect families are what we are told we should aspire to; day to day motherhood is far from picture perfect. It...

We all have a tendency to be really harsh to ourselves in the way that we talk to ourselves and this is often amplified in motherhood. ...