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The Maternal Mental Health Alliance (MMHA) has 130 members that support and advocate for mums, babies, and families, or represent the professionals who work with them in the perinatal period. MMHA members are essential to who we are, our collective voice.

Find out how to become a member, or email membership@maternalmentalhealthalliance.org if you have any questions.

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Royal College of Occupational Therapists

UK-wide

  • Policy
  • Royal College
  • Occupational therapy

RCOT is the professional body representing the diverse and thriving community of occupational therapy staff across the UK. With over 33,000 members we work to ensure the profession's rightful place in health and social care delivery and are committed to promoting the unique value and benefits of occupational therapy to the public, service commissioners and political representatives. We are proud to support a Clinical Forum for occupational therapists working in perinatal mental health.

Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health

UK-wide

  • Policy
  • Royal College
  • Paediatrics

Our mission is to transform child health through knowledge, innovation and expertise.

The College is dedicated to improving the wellbeing of children and young people. Recognising the importance of the mental health agenda, we have a number of work streams focused on improving core skills for healthcare professionals.

Royal College of Psychiatrists

UK-wide

  • Policy
  • Psychiatry
  • Royal College

The Royal College of Psychiatrists is the professional body responsible for education and training, and setting and raising standards in psychiatry.

Samaritans

UK-wide

  • Helpline
  • Online support
  • Crisis support

The Samaritans is a registered charity aimed at providing emotional support to anyone in emotional distress, struggling to cope, or at risk of suicide throughout the United Kingdom and Ireland, often through their telephone helpline.

How to get help from Samaritans

Sands

UK-wide

  • Online support
  • Counselling
  • Baby loss
  • Peer support
  • Bereavement
  • Helpline

Sands is the stillbirth and neonatal death charity. They operate throughout the UK, supporting anyone affected by the death of a baby, working to improve the care bereaved parents receive, and promoting research to reduce the loss of babies’ lives.

How to get help from Sands

Society for Reproductive and Infant Psychology (SRIP)

UK-wide

  • Research
  • Psychology

The Society for Reproductive and Infant Psychology (SRIP) is an international multidisciplinary organisation that promotes the scientific study, pure and applied, of all psychological and behavioural matters related to human reproduction. Through scientific meetings and workshops, our journal (Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology) and newsletter, liaison with professional bodies and the public, and discourse between members, we attempt to address issues at all stages of reproduction, pregnancy and birth and infant health.

Sport in Mind

England, Wales

  • Classes
  • Community
  • Exercise

Developing the Mum and Baby inpatient and community programme for women across England and Wales.

Support 2gether

Northern Ireland

  • Online support
  • Peer support
  • Anxiety
  • Partners
  • Dads
  • Depression

Support 2gether is a charity in Northern Ireland supporting families who live with antenatal and postnatal depression. The charity is driven by people with lived experience and provides support groups within rural communities, one to one support via home visits and telephone support. Support 2gether is passionate about educating the public and future parents. We do this by working in partnership with others and raising awareness through antenatal classes and workshops.

How to get help from Support 2gether

The Birth Trauma Association

UK-wide

  • Helpline
  • Online support
  • Peer support
  • Birth trauma

The Birth Trauma Association (BTA) was established in 2004 to support women suffering from Post Natal Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) or birth trauma. We are not trained counsellors or therapists or medical professionals. We are mothers who wish to support other women who have suffered difficult births and we aim to offer advice and support to all women who are finding it hard to cope with their childbirth experience.

The BTA is the only organisation in the UK which deals solely and specifically with this issue. We aim to tackle the problem with work which is focused on three main areas:

(1) Raising awareness of birth trauma

(2) Working to prevent it

(3) Supporting families in need

How to get help from The Birth Trauma Association

The Centre for Emotional Health

UK-wide

  • Training
  • Resources

Our mission is to promote an approach to life and relationships that equips and supports families and communities to be emotionally healthy.

Programme Summary

The Welcome to the World programme is an 8-week group for parents expecting a baby. Parents attend the group from approximately 24 weeks of pregnancy. Topics include empathy and loving attentiveness, infant brain development, healthy eating choices, breast-feeding, infant care, managing stress and difficult feelings, promoting self-esteem and confidence, and the couple relationship.
The programme focuses on the following areas:

  • Giving an opportunity to expectant parents to explore their roots, traditions, hopes and fears for the future
  • Developing strong communication between parents by sharing experiences and ideas
  • Increasing parent's reflective functioning and understanding of their baby: how he/she develops before and after birth, their physical and emotional needs, the importance of attunement, attachment and empathy
  • Increasing parents' understanding of their own emotional health and the need to nurture themselves to provide the best opportunities for the baby to grow and flourish
  • Enabling parents to think about their future as parents, a couple, a family
  • Increasing parents' understanding of the benefits of breastfeeding and the practical tasks of caring for a new baby
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