The mental health of mothers needs to be protected
A recent report says more than half of women experiencing perinatal anxiety and depression are undiagnosed. It's a symptom of our compartmentalised maternity system, says a maternity care advocate
This summer a report from the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) found that perinatal mental ill-health in Britain is now the most common complication of childbirth — and that “more than half of perinatal anxiety and depression continues to go undiagnosed”.
Could the same be true here? Could the mental issues of perinatal (period from the start of pregnancy up to a year after giving birth) women be so vastly undiagnosed in Ireland?
