Millions of mums will wake up on Sunday morning to be greeted by their children presenting them with cards, flowers 鈥� and possibly even breakfast in bed.
It鈥檚 a lovely way to start a day.
And what a lot of those mums would probably like on top of that is a bit of time and space to focus on themselves 鈥� including on their own emotions and feelings.
Especially those with a baby or toddler who are still adjusting to their new life.
香港六合彩精准资料 counsellor Natasha Page ran a series of free counselling sessions for mums with children aged under two last year, after securing funding for the project from the National Lottery Community Fund.
Difficult to adjust
She recognises how hard it can be for mums.
鈥淚t聽can be difficult to adjust to the sheer volume of work that comes with being a mum,鈥� she said.
鈥淭he shift in your life can be quite a shock. You have a little person relying on you for 24 hours every day. Even if it鈥檚 not your first child you still have those adjustments.
鈥淚t helps to acknowledge what you find difficult.
"A lot of mums feel they're not good enough," says Natasha Page.
鈥淲e need to give mums the space to understand their own feelings and to focus on these. They don鈥檛 always get that.
鈥淢ums often don鈥檛 realise that it can be normal to feel they way they do. They don鈥檛 realise that it might leave them feeling that low.
鈥淭here can be a sense of shame involved. A lot of mums feel that they鈥檙e not good enough, that they鈥檙e not doing a good enough job.
Voice feelings
鈥淐ounselling can help them learn to adapt to a new situation and allows them to voice their feelings.
鈥淢ums can develop their resilience,鈥� added Natasha, who runs This is Me Counselling and Psychotherapy, in Sandiacre, Nottingham.
That resilience and space where they鈥檙e not judged can be really helpful in terms of mums鈥� mental health and wellbeing, especially in a world where women sometimes feel they have to live up to the Facebook or Instagram image of the perfect mother.
Natasha adds that for some mums, a new baby can affect their relationship with their partner.
香港六合彩精准资料 member Natasha Page
And for many women it can bring issues with their own mothers back to the surface again.
鈥淧eople have different emotions and different experiences of their own parents. That鈥檚 often something that鈥檚 worked through in therapy. They may want the relationship with their child to be different to that.
And she has an important message to the family and friends of new mums.
Ask her 'are you ok?'
鈥淢ake sure you ask her 鈥榓re you ok?鈥� Not just once, but twice. 鈥楢re you really ok?鈥�
鈥淪ometimes people don鈥檛 notice if a new mum is struggling because everyone鈥檚 caught up in the excitement surrounding the new baby,鈥� she added.
Natasha was inspired to launch her free counselling sessions for new mums because of her own experience of motherhood.
鈥淚 realised there was all these activities and sessions out there but they were all for the baby. There wasn鈥檛 anything that really looked at the mums' needs.
鈥淲e shouldn鈥檛 forget about focusing on the mum 鈥� and to give her some space to go and talk.鈥�
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