When a woman has a baby, the expectation is that she should be overjoyed and happy, but this is a time of heightened anxiety and stress and many women feel very emotional and tearful.
Postnatal depression is very common, and many women feel isolated and lonely and suffer in silence, struggling along alone because their problem is either not recognised, or there is no support available to help her.
If you are a Health Professional practising in Tamworth or the surrounding villages, please download the form below to put up in the surgery or to give to your patients, to let Mums know that there is support out there.
This is a flyer which we use to inform women about the group if you know somebody that has just had a baby and is feeling down, please give them a copy - there is help out there.
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loads of info about Anxiety Management
EPDS stands for Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale.
EPDS Form
The guidelines for assessing EPDS are attached below.
Users need to be referred before attending the PND group.
The referral form is attached.
Edinburgh Post Natal Depression Scale (EPDS)
Name:___________________________ EPDS Score:_______________________
Assessment Date:__________________ Assessor:_________________________
HOW ARE YOU FEELING?
As you have recently had a baby, we would like to know how you are feeling now. Please underline the answer which comes closest to how you have felt in the past 7 days – not just how you feel today. Here is an example already completed:
I have felt happy: Yes most of the time.
Yes some of the time.
No not very often.
No not at all.