Next week myself and two colleagues are running a relay race, each doing 5k around media city. We’re running to raise money and some much needed awareness about Postpartum psychosis.

As most of you know I was hospitalised in a mother and baby unit with this illness back in 2017, within a week of giving birth. But thankfully the illness is a fully recoverable one, none the less, extremely frightening and scary for all the family to go through. Suicide is still the leading cause of maternal deaths within the first year of mums giving birth. Maternal mental health problems are more common than we realise and can usually be treated. But that help and support needs to reach the mums and families that need it most, so awareness is key.

Anything you can share or spare would be greatly appreciated.

Action on Postpartum Psychosis (APP) is a UK charity. We’re here to make sure mums, parents and families are supported through postpartum psychosis – a severe, but treatable, form of mental illness that occurs after having a baby and affects 1400 new mums in the UK each year.

We offer information and peer support, facilitate ground breaking research, raise awareness and campaign for improved services.

Our life changing peer support network helps women and families affected by postpartum psychosis feel understood, supported and less isolated.