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If you missed the BBC Look East programme that featured the work that Petals is doing at the Rosie Maternity Unit in Addenbrookes Hospital, here's your chance to see it again.  We have the kind permission of the BBC to reproduce this on our website, and also...

The researchers at Cambridge University have published their paper, Petals: An assessment of the outcomes of a service for bereavement during childbirth, and will be presenting it at the Psychiatry Conference in Iseo, Italy this week. Researchers Abi Magrill, Jonathan...

Failure to fully address perinatal mental health problems carries a total economic and social long-term cost to society of over £8 billion for each one-year cohort of births in the UK, according to a new report "The costs of perinatal mental health problems" released...

  Localgiving.com are running their Grow Your Tenner campaign from 10am today, 14th October 2014, until funds run out (or until 31 January 2015, whichever comes first). Throughout the campaign, Localgiving will match one-time donations pound-for-pound up to £10,...

We have some very lovely friends and supporters who have started doing a bit of baking to help to raise awareness about Petals, and hopefully raise a few funds along the way too... If you haven't seen the posts already - the Petals Bake Off involves someone making or...

We have some fantastic photos to show you of a team of fundraisers who completed the Spartan Race this month to raise funds for Petals.  The team was organised by Amelia Grant and her husband, Ben, who wanted to raise money for Petals in memory of their daughter,...

We've already said it on Facebook, in person, and in emails, but we felt the need to say again... THANK YOU!  Thank you to all our friends and supporters who helped us with the National Lottery campaign back in July.  For anyone who hasn't yet seen the update, we...

A former client of Petals, Louise Cooke, has raised an impressive £732.50 for Petals by organising a sponsored walk for herself and her friends.  Louise said that she wanted to organise the fundraising event to "say thank you to Karen and to Petals". Having never done...

As members of the Maternity Mental Health Alliance, we are committed to the Everyones Business Campaign which seeks to highlight the lack of consistency in perinatal mental health services across the country.  It is part of our aim at Petals to raise awareness of the...

In this short video our CEO, Karen Burgess, introduces a client who came to counselling for help with dealing with her antenatal anxieties: Jenny says:  "I was referred to Petals by my midwife when it was established that I was suffering with prenatal anxiety.Being...