Fronted by Kate, The Princess of Wales, she stated that: “In these difficult times, it is more important than ever to help support parents and caregivers provide loving safe and secure homes for their babies and young children to survive.”
It was only on rereading it, that what I thought first was ‘thrive’ was in fact ‘survive’, which is a peculiarly dramatic choice of word. However, this time of life is often characterised by powerful emotions, yet it is predominately the mother who experiences them. At least one in five women experiences post-natal depression, or as it is more correctly known post-natal illness, affecting between 70 and 100,000 women and their babies in the UK every year. These are just the reported figures, the truth is many women suffer in silence.
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