Best Beginnings

Being a parent with obsessive compulsive disorder

Obsessive compulsive disorder or OCD is often mentioned, but not necessarily understood. Pam is a Best Beginnings family member, London Marathon runner and author of the Obsessive Compulsive Mother blog. We spoke with Pamela Milne about how her condition influenced her journey to parenthood and how she found support. Read more
Embedding Baby Buddy with Leeds Maternity Care

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One Year On With Heads Together

Best Beginnings is honoured to be one of eight Charity Partners of the Heads Together campaign, spearheaded by Their Royal Highnesses, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry. After one year of collaboration, we have put our heads together to tackle the stigma around mental health through changing the conversation and raising awareness. Read more
Headbands For Heads Together

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Best Beginnings is a charity working to give every child in the UK the best start in life.

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Baby Buddy, the multi-award winning free app for parents and parents-to-be

The multi-award winning free app for parents and parents-to-be

Out of the Blue

Promoting mental health for parents and their children

Small Wonders

Supporting you when your baby is sick or premature

From Bump to Breastfeeding

Following real mothers' stories to find out how

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Baby Buddy Professional Champions trained in Norwich

As part of our Comic Relief funded work, Best Beginnings is working with Health Care Professionals in the East of England to improve the conversation around perinatal mental health and instruct on using our multi-award winning free Baby Buddy app to improve practice in the maternal care pathway. Read more
Depression - the challenges and the help

World Mental Health Day is happening on 10th October. We are looking to continue these conversations by providing support for parents to have them. We spoke with Rosey, founder of PND and Me. Rosey hosts a weekly, hour long twitter conversation called #PNDHour, that provides a safe space for people to discuss topics related to pre and postnatal illness. Rosey has her own lived experiences with antenatal and postnatal depression and shares her story about what helped her. Read more
World Mental Health Day - Changing the Conversation

For World Mental Health Day, we are looking back on the incredible work we have done together with the Heads Together campaign, which is spearheaded by The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, and Prince Harry, as well as the 7 other official charity partners. Heads Together partnered up with YouGov and conducted the largest ever national survey on mental health. On 8th October, 2017, they presented their findings to The Duke of Cambridge. Read more