06/11/2025
💭Stress Awareness Month 💭
Stress, Anxiety and Depression (SAD) can have a significant impact on your feelings and mood during pregnancy and after your baby is born. This includes partners too!
Awareness and early support can help make a difference to you and your baby's wellbeing.
Your body undergoes many physiological and hormonal changes throughout pregnancy which may lead to a mixture of emotions.
Many people will display SAD in different ways. Sometimes people mask their true feelings - always ask, and ask again. If you are starting to feel SAD and it is impacting your wellbeing reach out to a friend, family member, doctor or midwife.
How to help
❤Calm your breathing
❤Physical activity can improve mood
❤Healthy diet with regular meals
❤Social meetings with other people such as antenatal classes
❤Health professionals are trained to help, sign post and support
Try not
🔻Compare your pregnancy and feelings to others
🔻Always ask for help and support if you need
🔻Do not use alcohol, ci******es or drugs to try make you feel better - always reach out for support
🔻If you are already taking medication for your mental health - DO NOT stop without speaking to a health professional
If you need help for a mental health crisis or emergency, you should get immediate expert advice and assessment. Call 111 (select the mental health option), your GP or 999.
Tommy's: mental health before, during and after pregnancy
Call: 0800 014 7800 from Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm, for free
Email: midwife@tommys.org
Mind: postnatal depression and perinatal mental health
Call: 0300 123 3393
Email: info@mind.org
Samaritans:
Call: 116 123
Email: jo@samaritans.org (response within 24 hours)
Be KIND to your self and others - you don't know what someone else is going through. Start that conversation - check in, always be KIND.
