{"id":938,"date":"2020-08-25T10:58:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T10:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.socn.scot.nhs.uk\/?page_id=938"},"modified":"2024-02-05T10:18:55","modified_gmt":"2024-02-05T10:18:55","slug":"mental-health-wellbeing","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.nn.nhs.scot\/socn\/patients\/mental-health-wellbeing\/","title":{"rendered":"Mental Health &#038; Wellbeing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Pregnancy is often a happy time.&nbsp; It is also a time of huge change and 1 in 5 women experience mental health difficulties during or after pregnancy, most commonly anxiety or depression.&nbsp;&nbsp; It is common to feel anxious during and after pregnancy.&nbsp;&nbsp; Common worries include concerns about giving birth, whether you will be a good parent and relationship changes.&nbsp; Concerns about your heart health may add to these worries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.socn.scot.nhs.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2020\/09\/shutterstock_1482503156-1024x751.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.socn.scot.nhs.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2020\/09\/Screenshot-2020-09-22-at-19.55.46-725x1024.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Screenshot 2020-09-22 at 19.55.46\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>It is important that you speak to someone if you are struggling. &nbsp;Your Midwife, GP or Health Visitor all have experience of helping women with emotional difficulties during this time. If it feels too much to speak to a professional, you could speak to your partner, a family member or a friend. Women sometimes find that they begin to feel better just by opening up about how they are feeling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Remember \u2013&nbsp;<strong>there is help available and you are not alone in feeling this way<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhsinform.scot\/ready-steady-baby\/pregnancy\/relationships-and-wellbeing-in-pregnancy\/your-mental-health-and-wellbeing-in-pregnancy\">NHS Inform<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rcpsych.ac.uk\/mental-health\/treatments-and-wellbeing\/mental-health-in-pregnancy#:~:text=As%20many%20as%201%20in,in%20pregnancy%20or%20after%20birth.&amp;text=It%20can%20happen%20to%20anyone,of%20every%20100%20pregnant%20women.\">Mental health in pregnancy&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.moodcafe.co.uk\/\">Mood Cafe<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"nhsuk-card__description\">Pregnancy is often a happy time.&nbsp; It is also a time of huge change and 1 in 5 women experience [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":14,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-938","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nn.nhs.scot\/socn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nn.nhs.scot\/socn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nn.nhs.scot\/socn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nn.nhs.scot\/socn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nn.nhs.scot\/socn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=938"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.nn.nhs.scot\/socn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1716,"href":"https:\/\/www.nn.nhs.scot\/socn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/938\/revisions\/1716"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nn.nhs.scot\/socn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nn.nhs.scot\/socn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}