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10 - Beyond the Perinatal Period: Taking Your New Skills Forward into Parenthood

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 October 2022

Fiona Challacombe ,
Catherine Green  and
Victoria Bream
Fiona Challacombe
Affiliation:
King's College London
Catherine Green
Affiliation:
South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust
Victoria Bream
Affiliation:
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
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Summary

This chapter revisits the key ideas of the book on breaking free from maternal anxiety and provides a framework to capture the information and techniques that have been most useful to take you forward into the future as a parent and any future pregnancies. There are additional resources including a template for a birth plan to help work through fears and identify the best strategies for support. Also included are practical tips on improving sleep and mood as well as further resources, reading and peer support tailored to a range of issues in pregnancy and the postnatal period.

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anxietyperinatalpostnatalCBTbondingparentingmother-infant
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Break Free from Maternal Anxiety
A Self-Help Guide for Pregnancy, Birth and the First Postnatal Year
 , pp. 318 - 322
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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