Below are some useful resources about perinatal mental health and information for partners and family members.
Self-care / self-help resources
- The Mind website also has a lot of excellent resources on all of the major mental health problems, including self-care tips specific to each diagnosis.
Mindfulness and grounding techniques
Relaxation and exercises
Podcasts
- - Zoe Blaskey - brings you some of the best wellbeing teachers in the world to help you find your calm, happy place in the hectic pace of modern mum life.
- - Hosted by Untamed author Glennon Doyle, along with her wife Abby Wambach and sister Amanda Doyle, We Can Do Hard Things (the title a nod to DoyleÎÚÑ»´«Ã½ personal mantra) focuses on lifeÎÚÑ»´«Ã½ difficulties and ways to deal with them.
- - Podcast from a clinical psychologist on parent advice while also prioritising parental mental health and wellbeing.
Attachment and bonding
- - A range of resources on building close loving relationships between parents and babies.
Helplines and other forms of direct support
- - Support and advice for any parent who is experiencing a perinatal mental illness.
Telephone: 0843 2898 401
Email: PANDAS Foundation - - 0300 100 0212 - Support and information about breastfeeding and perinatal mental health.
Information and support
- is a UK charity dedicated to ensuring women and families affected by perinatal mental problems have access to high-quality comprehensive care and support. This webpage lists a number of useful groups and self-help resources for mental health and wellbeing.
- offer groups, events, activities, courses and support for families with children aged 0-19.
- offer a range of services, courses and support groups across Peterborough, Cambridgeshire and South Lincolnshire to support women aged over 18.
- contains a wealth of information on mental health services, voluntary sector and local authority organisations.
- - A list of other organisations and resources providing information and support on a range of topics that may be related to perinatal mental health difficulties, such as baby loss.
- - A list of contacts for organisations that support with topics either directly or indirectly related to perinatal mental health problems.
- - Online support for families across the UK, free to those who are on low incomes, who are Black or Asian, and/or who speak English as a second language.
Specifically for loved ones of parents experiencing mental health difficulties
- . The Mind website also has a lot of information on if you wish to educate yourself on what your loved one may be going through (although everyoneÎÚÑ»´«Ã½ experience is unique).
- - with the help of those who have been through Postpartum Psychosis, APP have produced a free Postpartum Psychosis Insider Guide for Partners. Use this link to get the free guide and access more in-depth information to read in Conjunction with the guide.
- offers support to people caring for a family member or loved one with a mental health condition.
Resources for dads’mental health (some may be inclusive of other non-gestational parents, and/or gestational dads)
- - The UKÎÚÑ»´«Ã½ fatherhood think-and-do tank.
- - Amongst other support, offers closed Facebook groups for Dads.