Yahoo News ‘My midwives were so amazing I’m thinking of training to be one’ – Cleethorpes mum inspired after overcoming struggles during pregnancy
A Cleethorpes mum who struggles with her mental health has praised the team of specialist midwives who supported her during her first pregnancy.
The mother, 30, who asked not to be named, gave birth to a son earlier this year. She said: “At the time I didn’t feel like I needed any support, but I am so glad I did have it.”
Lyndsey Hackett, perinatal mental health midwife at the Northern Lincolnshire and Goole Trust, was assigned to the mum, who has a number of mental health conditions, including borderline personality disorder, and suffered with adjustment disorder after her baby was born.
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“There is nothing in this world I can say or give to Lyndsey to show how much she means to me,” said the mum. “She and the rest of the specialist midwife team really, really are amazing. I honestly don’t know what I’d do without them.
“All through my pregnancy Lyndsey was always at the end of the phone. It’s more than her just being good at her job, she truly cares.”
The mum added: “I am thinking of training to become a midwife in the future, they have all inspired me so much. I can’t believe how much they all, especially Lyndsey, went out of the way for me.”
In the first few days after giving birth at the Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital in Grimsby, the mum said she felt “fine” but then found herself in “absolute panic”. “I got in touch with Lyndsey and said I felt like I needed to be back in hospital because I needed the support.
“I felt so alone and weak and started hallucinating, it was so scary. Lyndsey wasn’t even working that day and she went completely out of her way to get me back into hospital where they put an amazing plan in place for me.
“I said, ‘I’m such a nuisance’, as I wasn’t medically unwell. They told me they wanted me to be safe and they really looked after me.”
Happily, mother and son are both now doing well. “He is doing amazing,” the proud mum said. “He did struggle at first with bad reflux and colic but now he’s just loving it – and I love being a mum.”
The mum was speaking about her experiences in support of Maternal Mental Health Awareness week, which runs until Sunday, May 5. Perinatal mental health midwives of the Humber Health Partnership – made up of Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust – are urging anyone who is pregnant not to suffer in silence, and instead to reach out.
There is a drop-in to the meet team members on the morning of Thursday, May 2, at the Antenatal clinic, Scunthorpe Hospital. Further information can also be found at everymummatters.com and the Perinatal Mental Health Partnership website.
