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Personal stories

You are not alone, one in five mothers and one in ten fathers experience PND. Don’t forget we are not taught how to be mothers; it is something we need to learn for ourselves and at this time of our lives we sometimes need to be mothered ourselves.

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Celina's Story

I have enjoyed a successful career as a television presenter working for the BBC covering Olympics, World Cups and Wimbledons. I worked a lot in football and was the first woman to present Match of the Day back in 2005. I married James in 2007 and we were delighted to conceive a year later...

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Liz's Story

I never believed in the word depression, let alone postnatal depression, how could anyone possibly be depressed after having a baby I wondered? I was 24 and happily married, we both very much wanted a family and I found out I was expecting my first child in July 1983. At ten weeks I started to miscarry...

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Rebecca's Story

Pregnancy - I’d had an easy first and second trimester but then started to develop pre eclampsia for which I was hospitalised several times before the birth. The last trimester was not so easy; I had to go into hospital three times a week for blood pressure checks. At a 37 week check, I was not allowed to go home...

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Gaby's Story

I was so well in pregnancy, as fit as I have ever been. My labour was easy and at home, just as I had wished. During pregnancy I worried about something going wrong with the health of the baby or during the birth but my mental health just didn’t feature at all. I felt overjoyed when my Persy arrived safely and all his checks were normal.

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Helen's Story

A Year in The Life of PND

At last labour's over, the baby's arrived

I hold her close, try to comfort her cries

I feel nothing inside, just worn out and tired

I glance at my husband, see tears in his eyes...

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Natasha's Story

My daughter was born in April 2002.

I had a happy marriage, we had a lovely home and now we had a beautiful baby daughter. Life couldn't get any better. I had very high expectations of motherhood. I thought I would be a natural. An ever doting mother who would do absolutely anything for her child...

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Simon's Story

I returned to work after three days and left Fiona alone to get on with being a full time mum. I don’t think anybody likes to accept that they are wrong but I in this case I will hold my hands up to being so very wrong. I assumed that being a full time mum was a cavalcade of coffee mornings and play groups, how hard is that?...

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