Articles on Perinatal and Postnatal Illness

Separated at birth
Guardian report on concerns about treatment of women who suffer postnatal illness.
Out of the Blue? Motherhood and Depression
Recently the mental health charity Mind asked visitors to the PNI-UK website for their experiences of perinatal illness, and the services and help they were offered. This is the report compiled from your responses. (This is a pdf document.)
Why Mothers Die 1997-1999
Summary of the latest report of the Confidential Enquiries into Maternal Deaths in the UK. Includes "The case for assessing women with history of mental illness". (This is a pdf document.)
When I looked at my little girls I had an urge to kill them.
Article in the Daily Mirror about Claire Inglis, one of the members of our web site. It gives her story of postnatal illness.
Lost into post-natal depression
Harriet Lane relives the dark months she lost to post-natal depression. Published in The Observer Magazine, Sunday February 12, 2006.

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