Maternal Mental Health Awareness Week

What is Maternal Mental Health Awareness Week?

Maternal Mental Health Awareness Week is a week-long campaign dedicated to talking about mental health problems before, during and after pregnancy.

The week is all about:

• raising public and professional awareness of perinatal mental health problems
• advocating for women and families impacted
• changing attitudes
• helping people access the information, care and support they need to recover.
  

Who is it organised by?

The week is organised and led by MMHA member Perinatal Mental Health Partnership UK (PMHP UK), who launched the first-ever UK Maternal Mental Health Awareness Week in 2017.

PMHP UK is a small group of individuals, including parents with lived experience and clinicians, who came together to raise awareness of maternal mental health.

Daily themes for 2024

• Monday 29 April - Demystifying perinatal mental illness

• Tuesday 30 April - Moving together through your changing world

Wednesday 1 May - World Maternal Mental Health Day - Stronger together

The MMHA will be hosting our first-ever Maternal Mental Health Advocacy Day, encouraging our community to come together and use our collective voice to advocate for the mental health needs of new and expectant mothers in the UK.

• Thursday 2 May - Finding you in this journey: identity transformation in the perinatal period

• Friday 3 May - Perinatal positivity pot: shining a light on parent voices and recovery stories

• Saturday 4 May - Support for all: sharing empowering resources for all families in the UK and beyond

• Sunday 5 May - Reflections on rediscovery: looking back over the week