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Published: January 2016

Sally Hogg, MABIM Strategic Lead, writes in 2016 about the 20 areas of the UK that will be receiving the first phase of specialist perinatal mental health development funding.

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Published: January 2016

Sophy Forman-Lynch, from the Warwickshire Public Health Early Years team, writes about their 2016 research to hear the voices and experiences of 1,030 Warwickshire parents of children aged 0-5 years.

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Published: January 2016

Shereen Fisher, Chief Executive of the Breastfeeding Network and Wendy Jones, Pharmacist and Trainer with the Breastfeeding Network write about the complex relationship between how women feed their babies and their perinatal mental health.

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Published: January 2016

Professor Jane Melton, Director of Engagement and Integration with 2gether NHS Foundation Trust in Gloucestershire writes about the campaign they developed to help tackle stigma around perinatal mental illness.

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Published: January 2016

Alex Corgier, Scheme Manager of Home-Start Stroud District Quedgeley writes about a perinatal community support project they ran called Mothers In Mind.

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Published: January 2016

Susie Lingwood, Liaison Psychiatrist at North Middlesex University Hospital, writes about what her role involves, what she has done to improve services and how mums with perinatal mental health problems and their babies are being supported locally.

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Published: January 2016

Catherine Whitcombe, Locality Practice Teacher (Infant Mental Health Portfolio) in Gloucestershire writes about the work health visitors are doing in her area to promote Mums' and babies' mental health.

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Published: January 2016

Blog by Sally Hogg, Strategic Lead for the MABIM project. Perinatal mental health problems are not homogenous, and neither are the women who are affected by them. Preventing, identifying and addressing these problems in a timely and effective way requires a range of services to be in place in each local area across maternity, health visiting, mental health and children’s services. It often involves driving changes in culture, practice and skills in existing services as well as creating new ones. Ensuring that the right care pathways are in place is complex.

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Published: January 2016

Dr Carrie Ladd, GP and Royal College of GPs (RCGP) Clinical Fellow in Perinatal Mental Health reflects on the MABIM seminar for GPs and what was achieved.

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Published: January 2016

The Mums and Babies in Mind (MABIM) project was based in Blackpool, Haringey, Southend and Gloucestershire. It worked with local leaders in these areas to improve services for mums with mental health problems during pregnancy and the first year after birth, and their babies. Mums and Babies in Mind was a Maternal Mental Health Alliance project, hosted by the Mental Health Foundation and funded by the Big Lottery Fund. It lasted for three years, ending in September 2018.