Service Detail

The Perinatal Mental Health Service consists of Consultant Psychiatrists, Psychologists and Perinatal Community Psychiatric Nurses.

The service works with women or birthing people who are pregnant, or in the first postnatal year, who are experiencing serious perinatal mental health difficulties.

These might include issues such as:

• birth trauma; 
• psychosis; 
• depression; 
• anxiety; 
• prolonged feelings of loss, such as stillbirth; 
• an intense and disabling fear of childbirth (tokophobia); 
• obsessive compulsive disorder;
• needing support with medically complicated pregnancies such as placenta praevia or a multiple pregnancy. 

Referrals are from a health professional only.  We accept referrals up to twelve months post partum.

During pregnancy women and birthing people can be seen by the Psychiatrist, or the Psychologist, from 12 -14 weeks, and the CPNs from 28 weeks pregnant.

The service also has a Loss Pathway which supports mothers and birthing people who have lost a baby.  Find out more:

Loss Pathway - Supporting mothers and birthing people who have lost a baby.pdf [pdf] 107KB

Referrals

Referrals are accepted from professionals only, for women living in Coventry and Warwickshire.