June 6th- 10th is Infant Mental Health Awareness Week. Promoting, Protecting & Improving Our Children’s Mental Health & Wellbeing.
June 6th- 10th is Infant Mental Health Awareness Week. It is all about Promoting, Protecting & Improving Our Children’s Mental Health & Wellbeing starting with babies. Parent Infant Partnership (PIP) UK is to launch a Infant Mental Health week 6-10 June 2016, in conjunction with the work of the 1001 Critical Days and in partnership with […]
The amazing power of a mother’s love.
This story made me cry from https://www.facebook.com/Womenem – the remarkable story of a mother’s love. When Carolyn Isbister put her 20 oz baby on her chest for a cuddle, she thought that it would be the only chance she would ever have to hold her. Doctors had told the parents that baby Rachel only had only […]
The NHS is desperately short of midwives, and the shortage affects every region of England
I remember arriving at Mayday Hospital at 3.15 am after my waters broke with my first baby – excited, terrified and uncertain about what was happening to me. The midwives who helped reassure me, looked after me and helped me deliver (2 weeks early) my son Will into this world, with his little police helmet head after […]