The potential amount of people involved in supporting your health and wellbeing when you’re pregnant can be a shock to the system! Depending on how you have your baby it can culminate in an all-star finale cast of the who’s who in the local maternity world when your baby arrives. It then might slow down before a quiet exit stage left from the final midwives a few weeks later. And then it’s just you and your baby.
Maybe you came across someone on your journey that made you feel particularly at ease, lightened the load, and understood where you were at. For me this was often in the waiting rooms when I’d get chatting to another parent-to-be. Brief moments with permission to be myself, to sigh and moan, to reflect and take stock of where I was at and just leaving it there.
Wouldn’t it be nice sometimes to have someone who you connected with to pop back and listen in again; to see how things are going for you; to notice that you don’t quite seem yourself this week or that you seem particularly upbeat the next, without judgement.
This is what MAYA wants postnatal peer to peer support to feel like.
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