Peer Support Link Worker Julie shares a recent example of how peer support helped a mum following a traumatic birth.
This particular parent was referred to Essex Peer to Parent Network postbirth. She had low confidence, felt isolated and unsure of how to access other services and was struggling to bond with baby.
In the video below, Julie describes the type of peer support activites she offered mum, how she was able to work together with other local services to help enable mum to build a social network and process her truamatic birth, and shares the difference that it made...