Postnatal care and information

After your baby's birth booklet  for new parents

 

Birth Afterthoughts is a listening and debriefing service available to any woman who has given birth to their baby or is planning to give birth. It is a confidential service that provides an opportunity to discuss and understand what happened during labour and birth.

Birth Afterthoughts service at The Rosie Hospital, Cambridge

Birth Afterthoughts service at North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust, Peterborough and Huntingdon - If you would like to arrange a birth afterthoughts session, then please send an email to the team. Please allow up to two weeks for a response to come back.  If you don't hear back a little over two weeks then please send them a message via their Facebook page.

In Cambridgeshire and Peterborough there is a perinatal mental health support service. They are a team of mental health specialists helping women with serious and complex mental health conditions during pregnancy and up to a year after birth. 

Mental illness during this perinatal period can develop quickly and become serious in ways that can make pregnancy and caring for a baby difficult. They work closely with mums, their families and other professionals to try to pick up symptoms early.

If you are in a mental health crisis call 111 and select the mental health option. Specially trained staff are available all day and all night. You can call for yourself or on behalf of someone else.

There's lots of help available for mental health including:

• The Perinatal Mental Health Support Service is provided by CPFT and they have produced this leaflet about the service.
• MIND CPSL - help is also available from MIND CPSL on their supporting new mums page.
• NHS England - A set of mental health leaflets offer support for mums, their families, and the teams that care for them. The eight leaflets cover a broad range of topics including postnatal depression, postpartum psychosis and perinatal OCD, and the use of lithium and antipsychotics in pregnancy and breastfeeding. They offer advice and signpost to promote better understanding and support people in making decisions about perinatal mental health issues. The leaflets have been written jointly by perinatal psychiatrists, women with lived experience of perinatal mental illness, and their partners. They have been delivered in partnership by RCPsych, NHS England and HEE.  All maternity and mental health teams in the CCG are aware of these leaflets. Further information is available on the NHS England website. 
• H.A.Y. Peterborough! How Are You?- Bringing together everything in Peterborough that promotes positive mental health. From a friendly ‘how are you’, to activity groups and much more – it’s all taking care of our mental well-being. 

You’re entitled to return to the same job after maternity leave if you’ve been away 26 weeks or less. Your pay and conditions must be the same or better than if you hadn’t gone on maternity leave. 

It’s unfair dismissal and maternity discrimination if your employer says you can’t return to the same job. 

More information is available from

• Citizen's Advice
• Maternity Action

https://betterbirthlincolnshire.co.uk/

 

https://www.nhs.uk/start4life/baby/breastfeeding/

 

https://iconcope.org/

 

Physical activity guidelines

 

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Integrated Care System (ICS) have launched DadPad, a free and easy to use app which can help local fathers with guidance on how to develop the mindset, confidence and practical skills needed to meet their babies’ physical and emotional needs.

The app is available to all dads and dads-to-be within the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough and can be downloaded for free, from the App Store and Google Play. Dadpad is also available in hardcopy booklet versions, which will shortly be available to support those who do not have access to DadPad digitally and will cover the main topics contained with the DadPad app. To download the DadPad app visit https://thedadpad.co.uk/app/