7th May 2020
As part of UK Maternal Mental Health Awareness Week, iHV launches updated Parent Tips – Understanding your mental health and emotional wellbeing during pregnancy and after the birth of your baby (mothers).
Having a baby is a huge life event and a time of change. It is normal to feel many different emotions during the transition to parenthood, for example, over half of all new mothers will experience what is known as the “baby blues”. Symptoms of the baby blues include feeling tearful, irritable, and overwhelmed at times and can last for about 10 days after having a baby.
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This Parent Tip joins our suite of Parent Tips – our helpful factsheets to help parents to find expert advice on key areas of looking after their new baby from when they are born to when they go to school. Written by experts in the field, they cover topics such as feeding, health, behaviour and development, and are based on up-to-date research and the experience and knowledge of real-life health visitors working across the UK.
