Mental health and help


If you're feeling low, sad or worried, please know that you are not alone. Mental health challenges affect many parents during pregnancy and after childbirth please reach out for help.

  • Mental health in pregnancy

    NHS guidance for mental health problems and pregnancy.

  • Home-Start

    Home-Start Bristol is a local charity that supports and empowers parents who live in Bristol and South Gloucestershire, who are struggling and have at least one child under the age of five.

  • This Girl Can

    An exercise plan for new and expectant mothers.

  • Dads Matter

    Help for dads to have successful relationships with their families, and to support dads with anxiety, stress and mental health issues.

  • Parent talk

    Advice, guidance, and coaching for parents from Action for Children. 

  • Mother's for Mothers

    Maternal mental health and wellbeing support, advice and information to women, birthing people and their families in Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire.

  • PANDAS

    PANDAS is a community offering peer-to-peer support for you, your family and your network.

  • The Willow Tree Centre

    The Willow Tree Centre provides a free confidential and unbiased one-to-one listening and support service for women (and their partners) experiencing difficulties related to unplanned pregnancy and after all types of pregnancy loss.

  • Family Line

    Supporting adult family members by phone, text and email.

  • Talking Therapies

    If you are suffering from depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, excessive worry or low mood, then NHS Talking Therapies can help.

  • Getting support with your family's emotional wellbeing

    How to get support with your family's emotional wellbeing.

  • Support for parents

    NSPCC early parenting advice.

  • BBC parenting series including the Dad's Squad

    The daily challenges of parenting from dealing with a rainy day out, to supermarket tantrums, having to visit the baby changing room and getting fussy toddlers to eat.

  • Rockabye

    A group to support you and nourish your relationship with your baby through sharing experiences with other parents, singing and sensory play. It runs for 10 to 12 weeks in Children’s Centres across Bristol, for parents and pre-crawling babies.