Work Package 2 

In order to improve the experience of mothers and their support and mental health needs, first we need to understand it. We need to document it, measure it and above all talk to them first hand about how they lived through it. 

We collected evidence from over 1000+ mothers who had given birth between 6 weeks and 12

Working with a transcultural and multidisciplinary team of experts and grassroot activists, and learning from past experience of other partners in their own countries, we seek to address two major needs/gaps in Cyprus and Slovenia: 

(1) the need to understand (through systematic monitoring and recording) how the perinatal period is experienced by women, and how their PMH experience may relate to specific risk and protective factors 

(2) the need to produce and contextualize tools and advocate for systemic changes for equipping new mothers with skills and choices to safeguard their PMH.