Perspectives

I recently completed advanced perinatal mental health training with Dr Silvia Wetherell. I went in expecting to deepen my clinical knowledge of postpartum depression and anxiety. I came out with something I hadn't anticipated: a fundamentally different understanding of what maternal care is actually for. That shift is worth examining, because I think it points to something that goes well beyond my own practice. What I thought I already knew Perinatal mental health has always

A response to The Economist's recent coverage of low milk supply The Economist recently published a piece exploring the growing science of true biological low milk supply - the role of lactocytes, mammary gland development, placental dysfunction, and metabolic disease in determining whether a woman can produce enough milk for her baby. It is worth reading. The research it describes is real, it is important, and it has been neglected for too long. For too long, many mothers wi

Does Childbirth Preparation Actually Make a Difference? It is one of the questions I hear most often, asked with a mixture of genuine curiosity and quiet scepticism: Do childbirth classes actually help? A newly published study from the University of Queensland offers one answer. Researchers analysed data from more than 1,300 matched pairs of women, those who had used HypnoBirthing and those who had not, and found that the HypnoBirthing group were approximately half as likely