Your experiences

NCT members share their experiences of pregnancy, birth and parenting here

  1. Your experiences: struggling with postnatal depression

    Libby Binks, 37, suffered from postnatal depression after her daughter was born. Despite sharing her struggles with health professionals, she didn’t receive any support for a long time. Here’s her story.

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  2. Your experiences: having a baby in NICU

    One in 13 babies is born premature, and will spend time in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). We spoke to Dr Frankie Harrison, a clinical psychologist who works with parents after their NICU experience.

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  3. A Life Inside: One mum’s film about having a baby in the pandemic

    Laura Lamb had a baby in early 2020. What she'd expected to be an exciting time full of coffee mornings and baby groups turned out very differently.

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  4. Catching up with Dadda n Daddy

    We first met husbands, Andi and Darren, in 2020 when they talked through their journey to adopt their daughter. A lot has changed for the couple since we last spoke to them. Andi talks us through their changes over the last two years.

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  5. Your experiences: giving birth in the pandemic

    Priya tells us what it was like giving birth to her baby girl in the height of the pandemic, and what Covid restrictions meant for her experience.

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  6. Your experiences: being a motherless mum

    Sarah shares her journey as a mum without a mum. How it’s made her stronger but also what she’s missed out on and what she’s doing to support other women like her.

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  7. Your experiences: suffering with hyperemesis gravidarum

    Charlotte Howden suffered with such severe sickness during her pregnancy, that she would even vomit when she swallowed her own saliva. She now campaigns for more awareness about the debilitating condition hyperemesis gravidarum.

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  8. Parenting in the pandemic: Hannah’s story

    On our website, we've been following the experiences of Hannah and her partner, and her children Wilf and Theo. Here she tells us what it's been like parenting a newborn baby and a three year old during the pandemic.

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