To mark this year’s Maternal Mental Health Awareness Week, this episode sees Debbie and Abi discussing the Wednesday’s Child perinatal offering, and looks at what we’ve learned about the state of the nation in respect of eating disorders and maternal health.

Abi, our Perinatal Lead, has talked previously about her own battle with an eating disorder during pregnancy, and about the difficulty in getting healthcare professionals to truly understand and empathise with her food and exercise relationship during that challenging time.

Throughout the last year, we’ve worked hard to build up all kinds of education resources, training scope, and support provisions, to ensure more women feel understood and well heard, when it comes to dealing with a resurgence of an eating disorder, the unexpected onset of an eating disorder during pregnancy, or issues once a child is born.

We’ve now conducted training for dozens of midwifery and health visitor organisations and we continue to explore new and innovative ways to make sure we’re supporting not only the mothers affected, but partners, siblings and others in the care community.

If you’re interested in sharing your story, or you’d like to know about being a perinatal befriender or contributing to our work, do contact us on [email protected]

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