Helplines
Post Natal Depression Awareness and Support (PANDAS)
Post Natal Depression Awareness and Support (PANDAS) offer a free, confidential bookable call service to support mothers, their partners and families for prenatal and postnatal depression. PANDAS offer email support, online support groups, wellbeing support and support for dads.
Book a call service on the PANDAS website or email supportme@pandasfoundation.org.uk for support.
Find out more on the PANDAS website.
Petals
Petals offer free specialist counselling to anyone who has experienced baby loss. Petals offers 6 free counselling sessions for individual parents or partners.
Call 0300 688 0068 for to or email counselling@petalscharity.org to arrange a counselling session.
Find out more on the Petals website.
Pregnancy Sickness Support
Pregnancy Sickness Support offer a free, confidential helpline to support those suffering with pregnancy sickness. The helpline provides information for you to get the care and treatment for pregnancy sickness.
Call 0800 055 4361 or email support@pregnancysicknesssupport.org.uk
Open 9 am to 5 pm, Monday to Friday.
Find out more on the Pregnancy Sickness Support website.
The Breastfeeding Network
The Breastfeeding Network offers a free, confidential helpline which provides support around breastfeeding.
Call 0300 100 0212 or find more support via the webchat.
Open 24/7, 365 days a year.
Find out more on The Breastfeeding Network website.
The Miscarriage Association
The Miscarriage Association offer a free, confidential helpline to support anyone affected by miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy or molar pregnancy.
Call 01924 200 799, email info@miscarriageassociation.org.uk, use the live chat or access online support.
Open 9 am to 4 pm on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday. Open 9 am to 8 pm on Wednesday and Friday.
Find out more on The Miscarriage Association website.
Services
Action on Postpartum Psychosis (APP)
APP offers a support service for women and families affected by Postpartum Psychosis.
Complete the Action on Postpartum Psychosis online form to request peer support or email app@app-network.org for more information.
Find out more on the Action on Postpartum Psychosis website.
Hub of Hope
The Hub of Hope is the UK’s leading mental health support database. It brings local, national, peer, community, charity, private and NHS mental health support and services together in one place for the first time.
Find support that is right for you on the Hub of Hope website.
Tommy's
Tommy's is a pregnancy and baby charity, supporting people with baby loss and making pregnancy an birth safe for everyone. They provide pregnancy information pages, pregnancy complication support and baby loss support pages.
Find out more on the Tommy's website.
Toolkits and guides
Maternal Mental Health Alliance
The Maternal Mental Health Alliance provide a mental health and wellbeing guide for mothers during and after pregnancy. This includes tips and information on how to improve your mental health and wellbeing.
Read the mothers wellbeing guide or find out more on the Maternal Mental Health Alliance website.
Mind
Mind offers resources, guides and information pages on postnatal depression and perinatal mental health. This provides more information on postnatal and antenatal depression, perinatal anxiety, perinatal OCD, birth trauma, potpartum psychosis and where to find help and support.
Read the postnatal depression and perinatal mental health page or find out more on the Mind website.
Tommy's
Tommy's have developed a pregnancy and post-birth wellbeing plan which will help you start thinking about how you feel and what support you might need in your pregnancy and after the birth.
If you find it hard to talk to your partner, family, friends or midwife about how you are feeling, you could use the wellbeing plan to help start the conversation.
Access the Tommy's wellbeing plan or find out more on the Tommy's website.