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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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Birth Companions

UK-wide

  • Criminal justice

Birth Companions is a women’s charity dedicated to tackling inequalities and disadvantage during pregnancy, birth and early motherhood. They were founded in 1996 to support pregnant women and new mothers in Holloway Prison. Since then they’ve become experts in meeting the needs of women living in the most challenging situations in prison and in the community.

The women Birth Comanions support face many difficulties which can often make the birth of their baby a time of anxiety, stress and hardship. These can include being in contact with the criminal justice system, involvement with children's social care, immigration issues, homelessness, poverty, mental ill-health and a history of domestic violence or sexual abuse. Time and again their work has shown that with the right support cycles of disadvantage can be broken, and the futures of mothers and their babies improved. 

Birth Companions are led by and for women. They provide practical and emotional support through services in prisons and the community. Many of those supported go on to join their Lived Experience Team; a group of over 50 women who are committed to drawing on their experiences through research and policy work. Together, they are achieving real change in the way women and their babies are cared for across the UK and beyond.

Practical and emotional support to pregnant women and new mothers experiencing severe and multiple disadvantage. Raising awareness and improving policy and practice of the needs of this group of women.

How to get help from Birth Companions

Birthlight

UK-wide

  • Online classes
  • Yoga

Birthlight's objectives are to promote the physical and mental wellbeing during pregnancy, childbirth and parenthood of women, babies and fathers in England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and the rest of the world through education and research.

Birthrights

UK-wide

  • Training
  • Maternity rights
  • Information

Birthrights champions respectful care during pregnancy and childbirth by protecting human rights. They provide advice and information on legal rights, train doctors and midwives and campaign to change maternity policy and systems.

Blaze Trails CIC

UK-wide

  • Wellbeing
  • Exercise

Blaze Trails CIC is the UK's parent and baby walking community. They run 40+ local peer-led parent and baby walking groups to help parents make friends and get outdoors together.

Bliss

UK-wide

  • Online support
  • Premature baby
  • Information

The National charity for all babies born premature or sick.

How to get help from Bliss

Brazelton Centre

UK-wide

  • Infant mental health
  • Parent-infant

The Brazelton Centre UK is a charity whose primary goals are to promote an understanding of baby behaviour and development and to foster strong infant-parent relationships by focusing attention on parents’ needs and the important role their babies play in cementing healthy infant-parent relationships. It is based on the pioneering work of Dr. T. Berry Brazelton, Emeritus Paediatrician, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. His colleague, Professor J. Kevin Nugent, Psychologist, wrote the NBAS book with Dr. Brazelton and developed the NBO with other colleagues.

British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy

UK-wide

  • Therapy

Our desired position: We act in the interest of the public as a professional, relevant, credible and communicative organisation for the counselling professions, bound by a common purpose, underpinned by clear philosophy and transparent values.

Our purpose: We will advocate the role and relevance of the practice of the counselling professions in improving psychological wellbeing and mental health, and promoting social justice, in our contemporary and diverse communities.

How to get help from British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy

British Medical Association

UK-wide

  • Union

The British Medical Association (BMA) is the trade union and professional body for 170,000 doctors in the UK.

We are led by a team of executive directors working towards objectives set by the BMA council.

Council sets overall policy which is informed by the needs of grassroots doctors, as determined by the BMA Representative Body, which itself is drawn from branch of practice and regional committees throughout the UK.

British Psychological Society

UK-wide

  • Psychology

The British Psychological Society’s Faculty of Perinatal Psychology aims to promote the psychological well being of women and their families during pregnancy, childbirth and the postnatal period. It comprises representatives from a wide variety of clinical services, as well as members of the academic community. Its aims include: expanding the knowledge base; developing perinatal psychology services, linking and liaising with relevant training schemes and academic and professional bodies; and advising at local and national level on the development of relevant policy.

British Society Psychosomatic Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Andrology

UK-wide

  • Psychology
  • Obstetricians and gynaecologists
  • Counselling
  • Nurses
  • Psychiatry
  • Psychotherapy
  • midwives
  • GPs

The British Society of Psychosomatic Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Andrology (BSPOGA), as its name suggests, is the only society with a name which literally means the mental (Greek, psyche) & physical (Greek soma) interactions of women’s (Obstetrics, Gynaecology) and men’s (Andrology) health.

BSPOGA’s objective is to encourage a better understanding and improved management of the psychosocial, emotional, and biological problems associated with pregnancy, birth and diseases of the reproductive organs in women and men, through education and training. This is relevant to the current needs of both the medical profession and the general public.

The society is a multidisciplinary charity and its membership is open to any person over the age of 18 years including members of the public. Current membership includes obstetricians & gynaecologists, general practitioners, psychiatrists, midwives, nurses, psychologists, counsellors, psychotherapists and students.

We are a Specialist Society of the Royal College of Obestetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG).
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