Support Perinatal Mental Health Awareness Week & Our Perinatal Networking Group Partners

It is well documented that maternal mental health is one of the foundations of strong families, whānau, communities and the nation. Pregnancy and early parenting are a time of enormous change and often big challenges for parents, families and whānau – whether it is the first child or whether there are multiple children in the whānau. For children, the first 1,000 days, from conception to two years of age are critical to long-term emotional, mental and physical wellbeing.

In the year after giving birth or having a late-onset miscarriage, a woman is more likely to suffer a psychiatric illness than at any other time. Like many psychiatric conditions, post-partum psychosis and postnatal depression are curable if treated early enough, however, those who go unsupported and undiagnosed conditions can have long term negative consequences, not just for mothers, but for their babies, older children, partners and families.

We are also raising awareness and funds for our Perinatal Networking Group Partners who are:

Mothers Helpers

Well Women Franklin

Birth Trauma Aotearoa/My Birth Story

Central Lakes Family Service

True Colours - Honouring the Mother

Help us by donating so PADA and our Partners can continue to support new parents and their families and whānau with appropriate information and support.