perinatal mental illnes

Separating mothers from partners in hospital causes trauma. We need to stop doing it. Here’s why.

by Mia Scotland
17 September 20217 October 2021

I’ve been thinking a lot about this. I know that it causes trauma, because I’m seeing a lot of the distress that it has caused in the… Read More »Separating mothers from partners in hospital causes trauma. We need to stop doing it. Here’s why.

Happy mummy, happy baby

by Mia Scotland
1 September 2015
2 Comments

So, I’m eating a slice of toast while reading a blog from my facebook page this morning. I can do that now, because my children… Read More »Happy mummy, happy baby

Leave mum holding the baby at your peril: Postnatal depression and what we expect of women

by Mia Scotland
31 December 2014
17 Comments

I just left a woman in her house with her baby. I was her doula, and I was visiting her after the birth, to congratulate… Read More »Leave mum holding the baby at your peril: Postnatal depression and what we expect of women