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Youtube

Our channel, featuring Where is the village that was promised? The Perinatal Loneliness Project film exploring lonely moments

Where is the village that was promised?

Fathers and perinatal loneliness

Podcast

Beyond Baby Blues Podcast episode on perinatal loneliness

Guardian Article on the profound loneliness of modern motherhood https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/article/2024/aug/21/it-felt-shameful-the-profound-loneliness-of-modern-motherhood (https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/article/2024/aug/21/it-felt-shameful-the-profound-loneliness-of-modern-motherhood)

Blog post for Institute for Health Visiting https://ihv.org.uk/news-and-views/voices/solutions-to-perinatal-loneliness/ (https://ihv.org.uk/news-and-views/voices/solutions-to-perinatal-loneliness/)

Project Report

Solutions to Perinatal Loneliness https://figshare.com/articles/online_resource/_b_Solutions_to_Perinatal_Loneliness_b_/26219660?file=47525480 (https://figshare.com/articles/online_resource/_b_Solutions_to_Perinatal_Loneliness_b_/26219660?file=47525480)

Academic publications

Perinatal loneliness as a social determinant of perinatal mental ill health https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/5/e085669.info (https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/5/e085669.info)

Review of interventions to prevent perinatal loneliness

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12889-024-20788-z (https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12889-024-20788-z)

Loneliness and postnatal depression – a review of the evidence - https://bmcpsychiatry.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12888-023-04532-2 (https://bmcpsychiatry.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12888-023-04532-2)

Experiencing loneliness in parenthood- a scoping review - https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8580382/ (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8580382/)

Loneliness in pregnant and postpartum people and parents of children aged 5 years or younger- a review of the evidence https://systematicreviewsjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13643-022-02065-5 (https://systematicreviewsjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13643-022-02065-5)