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Becoming a parent or welcoming subsequent children into your family can be a time of significant adjustment. Coping with this adjustment can be extremely difficult, and it may affect your mood, thoughts and interactions with others.
Adjustment difficulties may make you feel anxious, low in mood, and very stressed. You may notice tendencies of wanting to be in control, not wanting to socialise and experience feelings of anger or rage.
The perinatal period, from preconception through to 3 years after birth, is critical time where the mental health of a baby begins, and it is a unique time where women are highly motivated to seek help.
There is a complexity to women’s mental health. In the perinatal period, there are significant hormonal changes, physical body changes, identity changes, role changes, workplace and financial changes and often significant shifts and changes within our social and attachment relationships.
Grief morphs, it hides, it lingers, it waits for the unexpected trigger to set it free once again, unyielding, and unpredictable, grief can be all consuming.
Grief lies in our anticipated future, our longed for past and the all too painful present. It taps into our attachment systems, our belief systems, and sits not just in our cognitions but within our bodies.
