🙌 Happy to share the final paper from my #PhD looking at #parentexperiences of pregnancy #imaging and their influence on prenatal #bonding is now published at: …pregnancychildbirth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Gill Harrison PFHEA (she/her)
Dr Christina Malamateniou (she/her) Susan Ayers Dan SCoR Members City Uni Health and Psychological Sciences

NEW PAPER - ‘Acceptability and content validity of suicidality screening items: a qualitative study with perinatal women’ has now been published. Please read & share this important research 🙏🏻 #perinatalmentalhealth #suicideresearch #pregnant #postnatal

frontiersin.org/journals/psych…

First publication from the MAP Alliance research programme on health services for perinatal anxiety, thanks to Rhiannon T Edwards and team at Bangor University 👏👏

The last episode of S7: Birth Trauma.

Not an easy subject but an important one. Did you know that a third of women in the UK say they experience birth as traumatic? A lot of this could be better managed. I talk to Kim Thomas from BirthTrauma.

pod.link/1567190358/epi…

This is why I launched a national inquiry into birth trauma in Parliament to hear from mums like Gill. We need to end the postcode lottery in this country and ensure that all mums get the support they need👇 BirthTrauma

New Publication 📢

Benton et al. (2024): Best practice recommendations for the integration of trauma-informed approaches to mental health care within the context of perinatal trauma and loss: A systematic review of current guidance.

doi.org/10.1016/j.midw…

Please do fill in the RCM's research prioritisation project and share among your networks. It's a chance to say what you think maternity researchers should be investigating. forms.office.com/pages/response…

When is the best time to screen for perinatal anxiety? 2nd paper from the MAP study published today sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Susan Ayers MAP Prof Helen Cheyne Rose Coates

Maternal death rates in the UK have increased to levels not seen for almost 20 years: experts explain why theconversation.com/maternal-death… via Allison Felker et al Susan Bewley Jim Thornton Catherine Roy Dr Ruth Ann Harpur

Recommendations for reducing traumatic births from DEVOTION COST Action CA18211 city.ac.uk/news-and-event…

At today’s oral evidence session for the All Party Parliamentary Group on Birth Trauma we heard evidence from international witnesses including in Australia, Switzerland and the Netherlands. Thankyou to the Chair of the NSW Birth Trauma inquiry Emma Hurst MP for joining us too.

You can submit your story via:

theo-clarke.org.uk/birth-trauma

It was a real pleasure today to give evidence and meet inspiring people working to prevent #birthtrauma . Huge gratitude to Theo Clarke MP for forming the APPG and leading this important inquiry🙏

The MATRIx study identified barriers and facilitators to getting treatment for perinatal mental health problems. The full report is now out👇

We are thrilled to announce that we have received funding from the NIHR Applied Research Collaborations (ARCs) North Thames to carry out MATRIx 2! We will be working with women and birthing people to co-design an accessible, culturally sensitive, perinatal mental health care pathway.

Great to have the first paper published from MAP on assessment of anxiety in pregnancy and after birth 👇

So good to hear Theo Clarke MP
and Tinuke Awe talking about the importance of postnatal care for women after childbirth. You can share your story wtih the inquiry at theo-clarke.org.uk/birthtrauma

'I really thought I was going to die there on the operating table.'

＠theodoraclarke is leading an inquiry aimed at developing better support for women who suffer birth traumas, after her own experience of traumatic childbirth - during which she thought she would die.…

Research funded by the NIHR to support improvement to UK maternity services evidence.nihr.ac.uk/collection/mat…

Report summarising UK maternity services performance and initiatives lordslibrary.parliament.uk/performance-of…