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This is the second week of our Maternal Mental Health series, which is dedicated to perinatal Obsessive-compulsive My name is Maria, one of the co-founders of the charity Maternal OCD along with Diana Wilson. I also work as part of the Maternal Mental Health Alliance team, campaigning to ensure all women and Maternal OCD: who we are and what we do Diana and I started Maternal OCD because there was nothing ‘out OCD contact details: www.maternalocd.org info@maternalocd.org @maternalocd on Twitter

I’m a neuroscientist who studies the neuroscience of motherhood and maternal mental health (check out the Maternal Mental Health series I previously co-edited for Inspire the Mind ).  impacted by the amount of stressors she experiences, including sleep deprivation, life stressors and maternal

pregnant women are facing death or permanent injuries, clinicians are fleeing total ban states leading to “maternity Child and maternal mortality rates are expected to rise as a result of these policy changes, with marginalised This caused a $32 billion loss of funding for global health aid and resulted in an estimated 108,000 maternal

Study design created by Louise Honeybul    Research participants were recruited from maternity services In one site, women who had engaged with substance use treatment or maternity care were given access to contact Polly Radcliffe ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We are grateful to the women who took part in the study and the maternity

In South Africa, important progress has been made with regards to maternity care policies, national guidelines For example, maternal depression is the leading risk factor for impaired growth and development of children Note from the Author: This article has been developed as part of the Global Economics in Maternal Mental Research Council (Donela Besada), as well as leaders (Alain Gregoire) from the Global Alliance for Maternal Mental Health have come together to produce economic evidence that can inform investment in maternal

This is the first blog of our Maternal Mental Health series. six weeks, dear reader, you will read about the often misrepresented, largely misunderstood world of maternal We hope that this series brings you a greater insight into maternal mental illness and demystifies its It is our society’s inability to value motherhood and maternal health — the people that give birth to To learn more about maternal mental illness check out the Maternal Mental Illness Series at InSPIre the

The Role of Stress Maternal stress during pregnancy can affect the development of the foetus which can However, the effects of maternal stress are not clearly shown in the early stages of the child’s development Maternal BMI, so a mothers BMI during pregnancy, has been positively associated with difficulties in Studies show lower cognitive performance is also observed in children whose mothers have maternal weight Interestingly, racial and ethnic background may also play a role in the effects of maternal BMI on the

In this blog, I explore the role of maternal stress, and especially of maternal experience of maltreatment Studies have shown that the style of attachment that most closely correlates with the history of maternal Maternal and mental health clinical services should aim to identify women at risk before, or at the beginning

vision for changing the wellbeing of future generations by tackling the longstanding shortcomings in maternal Tackling this problem could make a big difference for these women and their children, with maternal mental In the UK, the Women’s Health Strategy is an opportunity for change, with maternal health a key priority regulatory and government sectors to address the recommendations of the Commission’s report and make maternal Hannah Chance is a Research Policy Executive at ABPI, sits on the Maternal Health Group that provided

hormones which increase during lactation, especially oxytocin and prolactin, can reduce stress in the maternal Breast milk composition and the effects of maternal mental health Our recent paper, published in Brain literature to explore how the molecular composition of breast milk might represent a bridge between maternal In our review, we identify a number of studies which show that maternal mental health problems can affect Most importantly, little is known on how maternal mental health can affect breast milk composition, and

Generally, my work focuses on maternal mental health for a number of reasons — but primarily because I think that maternal mental illness effects on the mother has only recently been getting the attention The author writes, “While maternal postpartum depression is widely discussed and recognized as a serious and the clinical research available on this topic, points to the importance and safety of treating maternal

This is the third week of our Maternal Mental Health series, and it is dedicated to Postpartum Psychosis The postpartum period is a time of increased risk for maternal suicide and, according to the Confidential Enquiries into Maternal and Child Health, suicide represents the leading cause of maternal death within