Just wondering how many of you now, with pnd, would have liked a list of names given to you when you were pregnant, by your midwife, so that if you had pnd after the birth, you could contact a real life mum who has had, and got through pnd in your local community.
The mum would have volunteered to be visited by new mums who think they might have pnd or aren't sure whether they have or not.
Since having pnd for almost 2 years myself after my first child, I realised that if there had been 'real' people in my area who I could have contacted and chatted to about how I was feeling, I could probably have got through it much better than I did. I didn't go to the GP for 18 months!
So many mums can't face talking to their HV about how they're feeling or go the GP but a more personal approach, where mums who've had pnd could talk through how it was for them, I think could be a real help.
I know there's 'meet-a-mum' but I would have dreaded going to a meeting with a group of strangers and discussing it over coffee.
Any thoughts? I think it would be fairly easy to set up such schemes with help from HVs and GPs.