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Paternal postpartum depression: emotional and social availability for women in the early postnatal period

While 1 in 1000 births are registered to same sex couples, in the UK, 91% of fathers are present throughout the continuum of maternity care (Davies, 2018), and it is mostly men that provide practical...

Helping women prepare for hyperemesis gravidarum

Nausea and vomiting affects around 80% of pregnant women to a greater or lesser degree making it the most common medical condition in pregnancy (Gadsby and Barnie-Adshead, 2011) Around 30% of women...

Family Nurse Partnership: Meeting the needs of teenage mothers

While it is acknowledged that not all teenage pregnancies are unplanned or result in a substandard or negative life-course for mother and/or child (Duncan et al, 2010), there is a substantial body of...

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