Many women have good mental health during pregnancy. Some women may already have a mental illness when they get pregnant. Others worry about mental health problems they have had in the past. They fear getting ill again during pregnancy or after childbirth. Some women have mental health problems for the first time in pregnancy. Unfortunately, pregnancy does not stop people from having mental health problems. Women who stop medication when they get pregnant have a high risk of getting ill again (e.g. 7 out of every 10 women who stop antidepressants in early pregnancy become unwell again). Did you fall pregnant while having a mental health illness? How did you manage it? How was your treatment whilst being pregnant by all the various services..ie mental health and midwifery?
