The bed was covered with baby clothes neatly arranged with milestone cards for future events such as coming home and Easter. They were the outfits for all the special occasions Tara Maguire thought she would miss with her daughter Maisie, then just two weeks old. Downstairs her husband and mother-in-law were waiting to drive her to be admitted as an inpatient at the Bluestone psychiatric unit of Craigavon Area hospital in Northern Ireland. It was really hard, recalls Tara, wiping away tears...
We know that the existence of MBUs are the first things that women want, they are the most important things for rapid recovery, says Dr Jess Heron, a senior research fellow in perinatal psychiatry at the University of Birmingham, who set up Action on Postpartum Psychosis (APP), a national charity that campaigned for the new unit. However, she adds: We need to know a timeframe; we need something to happen now.
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