Maternity Health

17/04/2026

14/04/2026

14/04/2026

If you have any queries about pain relief in pregnancy please speak to your Midwife or GP.

14/04/2026

🥰A Little Message...🥰

13/04/2026

13/04/2026

10/04/2026

🌟Emotional Abuse🌟

Emotional abuse can feel as destructive and damaging as physical abuse, and can severely impact your mental health. The scars of emotional abuse are real and long-lasting.

It’s often used as a way to maintain power and control over someone.
Emotional abuse may be accompanied by other kinds of abuse. (see attached poster created by CAMHS)
Physical violence is often seen as being more serious than emotional abuse, but this simply isn’t true.

As well as having a negative impact on your self-esteem and confidence, emotional abuse can leave you feeling depressed, anxious or even suicidal.

The first step in escaping an abusive situation is realising that you're not alone and it's not your fault.
If you decide to leave be careful who you tell. It's important your partner does not know where you're going.
Before you go, try to get advice from an organisation that can give you information and support about making a safety plan.

🔸Women's Aid: https://www.womensaid.org.uk/
🔸Refuge: https://www.refuge.org.uk/
🔸Changing Pathways (Essex): https://changingpathways.org/

🔸Whilst women are the predominant victims of violence at the hands of men we know that men also so suffer this link for men: Men's Advice Line: https://mensadviceline.org.uk/

🔸And for those in the for LGBT+ community – GALOP: https://galop.org.uk/

09/04/2026

📣 Fathers & Partners – We want to hear from you!

Help us shape our Wellbeing Support Groups to suit your needs. Whether you prefer online chats, WhatsApp, or face-to-face meet-ups, your feedback will help us create the right mix of support.

📝 It only takes a few minutes to complete: Take the survey

Your voice matters – thank you for helping us support dads, partners, and families even better! 💙

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07/04/2026

🌟Health Anxiety🌟

Everyone worries about their health on the odd occasion, but when those worries persist with no evidence for concern, and the fear of illness becomes so great that it affects your day to day living it’s possible you might have health/illness anxiety.

Someone with health anxiety will continually search for symptoms, quite often ‘Googling’ these on the internet and concluding that a minor symptom is really a sign of a serious illness. This can then set off a vicious circle of more symptoms caused by the anxiety and stress of what might be wrong.

Please check out this post on the No Panic website for full information and ways you can help manage your condition.

Everyone worries about their health on the odd occasion, but when those worries persist with no evidence for concern, and the fear of illness becomes so great that it affects your day to day living it’s possible you might have health/illness anxiety. You might be surprised just how common this con...

06/04/2026

🌟Anterior Placenta – what does that mean?🌟

Have you been told that you have an ‘anterior placenta’ and wondered what it means or worried about the implications of this to you, your pregnancy or your baby?
Please don’t be worried!!! check out this very comprehensive article on Tommy’s for very sensible advice:

An anterior placenta is when the placenta attaches to the front wall of the uterus. This is normal, but there are a few things to be aware of.

04/04/2026

Need urgent mental health support this Easter? Help is available at any time. Call NHS 111 and choose the mental health option to speak with a trained professional.

If a person under 18 needs urgent mental health support, please call 0800 995 1000.

You are not alone. Support is available 24/7.