'There's clear evidence that intervening in those early weeks and months can make a real difference to women's lives, to babies' lives' mothers mental health
A group of mothers are in Stormont to highlight shortcomings in the maternity care they received
Jannine Barnes takes part in the Mas project in the Ballybeen Women's Centre in Dundonald, on the outskirts of east Belfast. "Sometimes we had students coming out and they hadn't been told why there were coming out to check her weight, so it just had a real impact on my mental health." She added that postnatal depression was a "significant mental-health problem" in Northern Ireland which resulted in about 70 mothers being admitted to mental health units annually.ongoing campaign for establishment a dedicated mother and baby perinatal mental health unitNorthern Ireland is the only place in the UK which has no dedicated in-patient service for women with serious post-partum mental-health issues.
"The work that this group of women have done is just so important in bringing this to the top of the agenda.
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