Maternal Mental Health Awareness Week

What is Maternal Mental Health Awareness Week?

Maternal Mental Health Awareness Week is a week-long campaign dedicated to talking about mental health problems before, during and after pregnancy.

The week is all about:

• raising public and professional awareness of maternal mental health problems
• advocating for women and families impacted
• changing attitudes
• helping people access the information, care and support they need to recover.
  

Who is it organised by?

The week is organised and led by MMHA member Perinatal Mental Health Partnership UK (PMHP UK), who launched the first-ever UK Maternal Mental Health Awareness Week in 2017.

PMHP UK is a small group of individuals, including parents with lived experience and clinicians, who came together to raise awareness of maternal mental health.

This year's theme and activities

PMHP UK – official organisers of Maternal Mental Health Awareness Week have announced that to mark 10 years of progress, partnership and lived experience leadership, the theme for 2026 will be A Decade of Voices.

Daily themes

PMHP UK's daily themes for this year (2026) are as follows:

• Monday - A Decade of Voices: Celebrating 10 years of progress
• Tuesday - Voices of Experience: Spotlighting parents’ lived experiences across the decade
• Wednesday - World Maternal Mental Health Day: Joining the global community to raise awareness and break the stigma
• Thursday - Voices of Care: Highlighting the vital collaboration between families and professionals
• Friday - Voices of Change: Focusing on advocacy, policy shifts, and Lived Experience changemakers
• Saturday - Voices of Loss and Healing: Providing sensitive, supportive messaging for those navigating perinatal trauma, miscarriage, stillbirth and baby loss
• Sunday - Voices of the Future: Looking ahead to the next generation of support, innovation and progress