05/05/2026
May is maternal mental health awareness month… More than one in ten women develop a mental illness during pregnancy or soon after giving birth.
“Nothing is as frightening as battling with your mind every day. Everything feels exhausting when something inside you has given up. It’s hard to function while struggling to keep negative thoughts at bay.
You may feel anxious about miscarriage or the baby’s health, worried about coping, and fed up with the physical changes and discomforts of pregnancy. Excitement and anticipation can turn into terrifying dread, a fear of the unknown and of the future, plagued with uncertainty.
Feelings can be contradictory and conflicting, shifting from satisfaction to disappointment, from discontentment and detachment to helplessness, joy, and elation.
It takes love to pick a baby up. It takes strength to pick yourself up when stress and depression break you down and cause overwhelming frustration. We honestly get it 🫶🏻✨
These intense emotions can leave someone physically and emotionally shattered, especially when the responsibility of a new life pushes them far beyond their comfort zone.
Don’t be afraid to seek help. Don’t feel hopeless or guilty about your mental health. Every mum matters and dads too.
Please know: you’re not alone.
As a clinic we are huge advocates for mental health so please know if you aren’t quite feeling like pregnancy is perfect it’s ok. (Because it’s not) it comes with so many emotional changes, challenges and so much more.
