Mental Health
Practical guides on mental health during pregnancy — clear, UK-focused answers for every stage.
Antenatal Depression: The Signs to Watch For
Antenatal depression signs to watch for during pregnancy, how it differs from baby blues, risk factors, and UK support options.
Anxiety in Early Pregnancy: How Common Is It?
How common is anxiety in early pregnancy? UK statistics, why it happens, and reassurance that you are not alone in feeling worried during weeks 0-12.
Comments About Your Body in Pregnancy: How to Handle Them
Pregnancy seems to give some people permission to say things about your body they'd never say otherwise. Whether it's a colleague announcing "you're huge…
Coping with Comments About Your Body in Pregnancy
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Pregnancy After Recurrent Loss: Coping Guide
Being pregnant again after recurrent miscarriage brings a particular kind of anxiety that's hard to put into words to anyone who hasn't experienced it…
How to Cope with Pregnancy Anxiety
Practical ways to cope with pregnancy anxiety in weeks 0-12: breathing techniques, lifestyle changes, talking therapies, and self-help strategies that work.
Coping With Pregnancy After Infertility
Why pregnancy after infertility can feel complicated, and how to look after your mental health during it.
Pregnancy After Secondary Infertility: Coping Guide
Secondary infertility is difficulty conceiving or carrying a pregnancy to term after you've already had a child. It's a surprisingly common but often…
Coping With a Surprise Pregnancy
Practical steps for steadying yourself after an unexpected positive test, and deciding what comes next.
Coping with an Unplanned Pregnancy
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Coping With the Wait Between Scans
Pregnancy is full of waiting, and the gaps between scans — from your first booking appointment through to your 12-week dating scan, 20-week anomaly scan…
Coping While Waiting Between Scans: A Complete Guide
How to manage anxiety in the gaps between pregnancy appointments.
Dealing With Unwanted Advice in Pregnancy
How to handle unwanted pregnancy advice from family, friends, and strangers. Tips and scripts.
Depression in Early Pregnancy: Signs to Watch
Depression in early pregnancy signs to watch for, how it differs from normal mood changes, and where to get support in the UK.
Fear of Birth (Tocophobia): How to Overcome It
Tocophobia is the fear of childbirth. Learn about the condition, treatment options, and how to manage fear of birth.
Fear of Miscarriage: How to Cope
How to cope with fear of miscarriage in early pregnancy, understanding the real statistics, managing anxious thoughts, and finding UK support.
Feeling Disconnected in Pregnancy: Complete Guide
Not everyone falls instantly in love with the idea of the baby growing inside them, and that can feel like a lonely, guilty secret when everyone around…
Feeling Guilty for Not Enjoying Pregnancy
Why not loving every minute of pregnancy is more common than you think, and how to ease the guilt.
Is It Normal to Regret Being Pregnant?
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Journaling in Pregnancy: How It Helps
How journaling during pregnancy can help with anxiety, memory-keeping, and emotional processing.
Keeping Pregnancy Secret: Mental Health Impact
The mental health impact of keeping pregnancy secret in early weeks, why people do it, the costs to wellbeing, and how to find support while waiting to announce.
Making Peace With an Unwanted Pregnancy
Gentle, practical support for processing an unwanted pregnancy and finding a path forward that feels right for you.
Making a Wellbeing Plan in Pregnancy
How to make a wellbeing plan during pregnancy. What to include and why it helps.
Making a Wellbeing Plan with Tommy's: A Complete UK Guide
How to use the Tommy's Wellbeing Plan to look after your mental health in pregnancy and after birth.
Making a Wellbeing Plan: Tommy's Guide
How to use Tommy's Wellbeing Plan to look after your mental health in pregnancy and after birth.
Maternal Mental Health Charities UK: Complete List
If you are struggling emotionally during pregnancy or after birth, you are not alone, and there are UK charities set up specifically to help. Alongside…
Best Meditation Apps for Pregnancy
The best meditation apps for pregnancy anxiety and sleep, including free and paid options available in the UK, with features and pricing compared.
Mental Health in Early Pregnancy: A Complete Guide
A complete guide to mental health in early pregnancy (weeks 0-12): anxiety, depression, coping strategies, and where to find support in the UK.
Mindfulness for Pregnancy Anxiety
How mindfulness helps with pregnancy anxiety, simple exercises for the first trimester, and free UK resources to get started.
PANDAS Foundation: Perinatal Mental Health Charity
What PANDAS Foundation offers, who it is for, and how to access its peer-led perinatal mental health support.
Panic Attacks in Early Pregnancy
Panic attacks in early pregnancy: symptoms, triggers, safe coping techniques, and when to seek help. Reassuring UK-focused guidance for weeks 0-12.
When People Touch Your Bump Without Asking
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Perinatal Mental Health Services in the UK
Complete guide to UK perinatal mental health services, including who qualifies and how to access them.
Perinatal Mental Health Services in the UK: What's Available
Complete guide to perinatal mental health services in the UK. What's available, how to access support, and your rights.
What Perinatal Mental Health Teams Do
A clear guide to NHS Perinatal Mental Health Teams: who they support, what they offer, and how to access them.
Perinatal Mental Health: A Complete UK Guide
A complete UK guide to perinatal mental health — what it is, NHS services, conditions and support from pregnancy through the first year.
Pregnancy After IVF: Coping With the Anxiety of Finally Being Pregnant
Pregnancy after IVF brings unique anxiety. How to cope when you've waited so long and finally see a positive test.
Pregnancy After Loss: Support Charities UK
Being pregnant after a miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy, or stillbirth brings a particular kind of anxiety that friends and family who haven't experienced…
Pregnancy After Loss: Week by Week Coping
A week-by-week guide to coping emotionally with pregnancy after loss, from weeks 0 to 12, with specific strategies and UK support for each stage.
Pregnancy After Miscarriage: Coping with Anxiety
Coping with anxiety in pregnancy after miscarriage: triggers, emotional challenges, coping strategies, and UK support resources for weeks 0-12.
Pregnancy After Recurrent Loss: A Complete Guide
Coping emotionally and practically with pregnancy after recurrent miscarriage in the UK.
Pregnancy After Stillbirth: Support and Coping
Pregnancy after stillbirth brings unique grief and anxiety. Where to find support and how to cope.
Pregnancy After a Traumatic Birth
Pregnancy after a traumatic previous birth. How to cope, plan for a better experience, and get support.
Pregnancy and Acceptance: Complete Guide
Coming to terms with pregnancy isn't always instant, even when it's wanted. Whether the news arrived as a shock or as the result of years of trying…
Pregnancy and Addiction: Getting Help
Finding out you are pregnant while struggling with alcohol, drugs, or other substance use can feel overwhelming. You may be afraid of being judged, of…
Pregnancy and Anger: Complete Guide
Snapping at your partner over something trivial, or feeling a flash of rage over a minor annoyance that would normally barely register, can be genuinely…
Pregnancy and Anxiety Disorder: Complete Guide
Some worry in pregnancy is completely normal — most people think more than usual about their baby's health, the birth, and everything changing ahead. But…
Asking for Help in Pregnancy: Complete Guide
Pregnancy asks a lot of your body and your energy, yet many women push through exhaustion, sickness and stress without asking for support, worried it…
Birth Plan Anxiety: Complete Guide
Writing a birth plan can quickly go from exciting to overwhelming, especially when you're trying to anticipate every possible outcome of a day you've…
Pregnancy and Body Dysmorphia: A Complete UK Guide
A complete UK guide to body dysmorphic disorder in pregnancy — symptoms, triggers, NHS treatment and support.
Pregnancy and Body Image: Complete Guide
Pregnancy asks your body to change faster than almost anything else you'll experience, and it's completely normal for your feelings about that to be…
Pregnancy Bonding Anxiety: Complete Guide
It's easy to assume that love for your baby should arrive the moment you see a positive test, but for many people that feeling grows slowly, or doesn't…
Crying in Pregnancy: Complete Guide
Finding yourself in tears over an advert, a song, or nothing you can put your finger on? Unexpected crying is one of the most common — and most normal…
Crying Spells in Pregnancy: Complete Guide
If you've found yourself sobbing at a supermarket advert or a song on the radio and have no idea why, you're not alone. Sudden crying spells are one of…
Pregnancy and Depression: A Complete UK Guide
A complete UK guide to antenatal depression — symptoms, NHS support, treatment options and self-help during pregnancy.
Pregnancy and Eating Disorders: A Complete UK Guide
A complete UK guide to eating disorders in pregnancy — risks, NHS care, body image and recovery.
Pregnancy and Eating Disorders: Support Guide
Pregnancy with an eating disorder history — how to cope with body changes, weight gain, and where to get support.
Fear of Birth (Tocophobia): Complete Guide
Feeling nervous about labour is completely normal, but for some people the fear is much bigger than nerves — it can dominate their thoughts, disrupt…
Fear of Judgement in Pregnancy: Complete Guide
Pregnancy tends to invite opinions from everyone — strangers, colleagues, extended family — often unasked for. Fear of being judged for how you look…
Fear of Miscarriage: Complete Guide
Fear of miscarriage is one of the most common worries in early pregnancy, and for many people it's near-constant during the first trimester. It doesn't…
Pregnancy and Gratitude: Complete Guide
"You should be grateful — some people can't get pregnant" is one of the most common, and most unhelpful, things said to pregnant people who are…
Pregnancy and Grief: Complete Guide
Being pregnant while grieving — whether you've lost a parent, a partner, a friend, or experienced a previous pregnancy loss — is one of the most…
Pregnancy and Grief: When Loss Coincides With Pregnancy
Being pregnant while grieving a loss is one of the most emotionally complicated experiences a person can go through. You are holding two enormous things…
Pregnancy Guilt: Complete Guide
Guilt is one of the most common — and least talked about — emotions of pregnancy. It can show up over things that are entirely outside your control, and…
Pregnancy Health Anxiety: Complete Guide
Some worry about your baby's health is a completely normal part of pregnancy — most people have it. Health anxiety is different: it's when that worry…
Pregnancy and Identity: Complete Guide
Somewhere between the first positive test and the nursery coming together, many women notice a quieter shift happening alongside the physical one — a…
Pregnancy Imposter Syndrome: Complete Guide
It might sound strange, but many pregnant women describe a nagging feeling that they're not "really" pregnant, don't deserve the excitement and support…
Pregnancy Insomnia: Complete Guide
Lying awake at 3am while everyone else sleeps is one of pregnancy's most frustrating experiences. Insomnia affects a large proportion of pregnant women…
Intrusive Thoughts in Pregnancy: Complete Guide
Having a sudden, unwelcome thought about something terrible happening to your baby can be one of the most frightening parts of pregnancy — not because of…
Pregnancy and Isolation: A Complete UK Guide
Coping with loneliness and isolation during pregnancy in the UK, with practical ways to connect.
Pregnancy Mood Swings: Complete Guide
One minute you're laughing, the next you're in tears over an advert — welcome to pregnancy mood swings. They're one of the most universal early pregnancy…
Pregnancy and OCD: Complete Guide
Pregnancy hormones can trigger obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) for the first time or make existing OCD symptoms worse, and perinatal OCD is far more…
Pregnancy and OCD: A Complete UK Guide
A complete UK guide to perinatal OCD — intrusive thoughts, compulsions, NHS treatment and recovery.
Pregnancy and OCD
How obsessive-compulsive disorder can affect pregnancy and postpartum in the UK, with treatment options.
Pregnancy and OCD: How to Manage It
OCD during pregnancy can worsen or appear for the first time. Learn about perinatal OCD and how to get help.
Pregnancy Overwhelm: Complete Guide
Pregnancy asks a lot of you all at once: a changing body, a flood of decisions, appointments to keep track of, and the knowledge that life is about to…
Pregnancy and Panic Disorder: Complete Guide
A sudden pounding heart, tight chest, and a wave of fear that seems to come from nowhere — panic attacks can feel terrifying at the best of times, and…
Pregnancy and Perfectionism: Complete Guide
If you like to do things properly, pregnancy can feel like the ultimate test — there's a "right" diet, a "right" way to exercise, a "right" birth plan…
Perinatal OCD: Complete Guide
Perinatal OCD is a form of obsessive-compulsive disorder that starts or worsens during pregnancy or after birth. It's more common than most people…
Pregnancy and PTSD: A Complete UK Guide
A complete UK guide to PTSD in pregnancy — causes, symptoms, NHS trauma pathways, treatment and support.
Pregnancy and PTSD: Complete Guide
Pregnancy can bring post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) to the surface, whether it stems from a previous traumatic birth, sexual assault, medical…
Pregnancy and PTSD: A Guide
PTSD during pregnancy — how past trauma affects pregnancy and where to get help.
Pregnancy Rage: Complete Guide
Nobody warns you about this one. Pregnancy is usually painted as a time of glowing calm, so snapping at your partner over a dirty mug or feeling a flash…
Pregnancy Scan Anxiety: Complete Guide
If the days before a scan leave your stomach in knots, you're far from alone. "Scanxiety" — the intense worry many women feel in the run-up to ultrasound…
Pregnancy Self-Compassion: Complete Guide
Self-compassion means treating yourself with the same warmth and patience you'd naturally offer a friend going through the same thing. In pregnancy, when…
Pregnancy and Self-Harm Support: A Complete UK Guide
A complete UK guide to self-harm in pregnancy — understanding, NHS support, safety planning and recovery.
Pregnancy and Shame: Complete Guide
Shame is one of the most isolating emotions in pregnancy, and one of the least talked about. It can turn what should be a supported time into a quietly…
Shame After Miscarriage: Complete Guide
Grief after miscarriage is widely understood, but the shame that often comes with it is talked about far less — and it can be just as heavy. Many people…
Pregnancy Sleep Anxiety: Complete Guide
Lying awake at 3am running through worst-case scenarios is one of the least talked-about parts of early pregnancy. Sleep anxiety — anxious thoughts that…
Pregnancy and Social Media Anxiety: Complete Guide
Scrolling Instagram and TikTok during pregnancy can leave you feeling reassured one minute and terrified the next. Pregnancy is a time when many people…
Pregnancy and Trauma: Complete Guide
Pregnancy can bring past trauma to the surface in ways that feel confusing or overwhelming, even years after the original experience. This isn't a sign…
Pregnancy Worry: Complete Guide
A certain amount of worry comes with the territory of pregnancy — it's a major life change wrapped in a fair amount of uncertainty. But when worry starts…
Pregnancy Anxiety Disorder: A Complete UK Guide
A complete UK guide to recognising and managing anxiety during pregnancy, with NHS pathways, coping tools and support.
Pregnancy Anxiety: When to Get Help
Know when to get help for pregnancy anxiety. Signs that worry has become a problem, who to contact in the UK, and what treatment options are available.
Pregnancy Counselling in the UK: A Complete Guide
What pregnancy counselling is, when to consider it, and how to access it free or low-cost in the UK.
Pregnancy and Domestic Abuse Support: A Complete UK Guide
Recognising domestic abuse in pregnancy and finding safe support in the UK.
Pregnancy Doom-Scrolling: How to Break the Habit
It's 1am, you told yourself you'd just check one thing, and forty minutes later you're three forums deep into someone else's worst-case story…
Pregnancy Doom Scrolling: How to Break the Habit
Pregnancy doom scrolling: why it happens and how to break the habit
Pregnancy Forums: Helpful or Harmful for Anxiety
Pregnancy forums: when they help, when they harm, and how to use them wisely
Pregnancy Loneliness: Complete Guide
Feeling lonely during pregnancy is far more common than most people admit, and it can catch you off guard — especially if you expected to feel closer to…
Pregnancy and Relationship Stress
How pregnancy stress affects relationships and how to manage it together.
Pregnancy Therapy in the UK: A Complete Guide
Types of therapy available in pregnancy, what helps, and how to access it in the UK.
Pregnancy When Single: A Complete UK Guide
Emotional and practical support for single mothers-to-be in the UK.
The Pressure to Be Happy During Pregnancy
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Saying No During Pregnancy
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Scanxiety: The Fear Before Every Scan
Scanxiety, the intense fear before pregnancy scans, why it happens, how to cope on scan day, and what to do if results take time, with UK-focused advice.
Self-Care in Early Pregnancy: A Complete Guide
Practical, realistic self-care strategies for the first trimester.
Self-Care in Early Pregnancy: Practical Tips
Self-care tips for early pregnancy. How to look after yourself physically and emotionally.
Setting Boundaries During Pregnancy
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How to Stop Googling Pregnancy Horror Stories
How to stop Googling pregnancy horror stories and break the cycle of reassurance-seeking, with practical steps and UK support for anxious pregnancy nights.
Tommy's Pregnancy Mental Health Support
How Tommy's supports mental health in pregnancy through information, midwife guidance, and a wellbeing plan.
Toxic Positivity in Pregnancy
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Coping with the Two-Week Wait Anxiety
Two-week wait anxiety: practical ways to cope during the wait to test