11 July 2023

Honey Attridge, Peer Support Worker for CNWL’s Maternity Trauma and Loss Care Service (M-TLC) has featured in a podcast series on Perinatal Mental Health for Transformation Partners in health and Care. The series of podcasts are to support women and birthing people who are involved in treatment, waiting for treatment or unsure if they need more help and support.

Honey’s podcast (episode 2), titled ‘Sharing experience of birth trauma and the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit’, focuses on the birth of Honey’s daughter Sophie, the time she spent in the NICU and how she and her husband navigated both the physical and mental side of this journey.

Honey also shares some advice to parents who may be going through the same thing as well as how the experience affected her, the way she parents because of it and how she has worked to overcome the trauma.

You can listen to the podcast on the Transformation Partners in Health and Care website.