For World Maternal Mental Health Day, Grazia has partnered with the Maternal Mental Health Alliance to lobby MPs to introduce new support. Read more on Grazia.
For World Maternal Mental Health Day, Grazia has partnered with the Maternal Mental Health Alliance to lobby MPs to introduce new support. are launching a new campaign to improve women’s access to mental health care during and post pregnancy. We’re asking the government to implement mandatory mental health check-ups as part of every prenatal and antenatal appointment.
Abigail opened up to her midwife about her mental health struggles at every appointment, but never received support. ‘She always just measured my bump and said, “Well, the baby’s growing fine so you’re obviously managing to eat enough”. This wasn’t down to anything she did wrong as an individual, but simply down to the fact that due to a lack of education and awareness, eating disorders simply aren’t on the radar of the vast majority of perinatal professionals.
Abigail’s suicidal thoughts escalated, and at eight months she asked her GP for help and was referred to eating disorder services. She received community-based treatment, and her son was born healthy, but afterwards she required inpatient treatment at a mother and baby unit. Even in the unit, nurses admitted they had never worked with someone with an eating disorder.
We think mental health check-ins should be as standard as taking blood pressure. If you want to support Grazia and MMHA’s new campaign, we’vethat you can download, edit and send to your local MP asking them to support a policy change. To contact your local MP, visit
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