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For this special edition of the podcast, Motherkind Café coordinator Katherine Crawford spoke to 2 Thames Valley Police officers, Detective Superintendent Kelly Gardener and Detective Sergeant Graeme Allen who specialise in domestic abuse. They explain how the police process works when a domestic abuse allegation is made by a victim, and the ways in which the police investigation can support and protect someone escaping an abusive relationship. 

Please don't suffer in silence - you can contact the Police via 999 if you are in immediate danger, or on 101 to discuss domestic abuse or get advice. You can also use a web form to report a crime or ask your GP, children school or another health professional to contact them for you. 

There is also support available via the following organisations

Women's Aid www.womensaid.org.uk

Refuge www.refuge.org.uk

In Oxfordshire:
www.reducingtherisk.org.uk/oxfordshire/

Free legal advice from Flag DV
www.flagdv.org.uk

Relate - Counselling for victims and survivors who are in, or have left, an abusive relationship.
www.relate.org.uk
The Motherkind Café is a perinatal peer support group in Oxford, where women can come at any stage from pregnancy until their children are at school, for support with their mental health. The group is entirely run by volunteers who are all mothers, many of whom have lived experience of a perinatal mental illness, and who all know what it's like to struggle as a mother. 


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In this episode of the podcast,  Motherkind Café coordinators Katherine Crawford, Emily Malden and Jules Pidgeon are joined by local mum Heather, who gave birth to her second baby in May 2021, to discuss loneliness in motherhood and how the pandemic has affected Heathers experience of second-time motherhood. 

Pre-warning there is brief discussion of suicidal thoughts and of a traumatic birth experience. Please proceed with care if you might find that hard to listen to. 

We discuss the lonely moments of raising a baby that don't often get talked about, the long nights with a baby that wakes often, how difficult it is to find honesty about the mental toll of motherhood at baby groups, especially when you are suffering with depression or anxiety. We also talk about feeling lonely amongst the relentlessness of looking at 2 small children at home all day (and how well the new Netflix film 'The Lost Daughter' depicts this), and how weekends can be a lonely place for single parents. 

The Motherkind Café is a perinatal peer support group in Oxford, for women at any stage from pregnancy until their children are at school, to come for support with their mental health. The group is entirely run by volunteers who are all mothers, many of whom have lived experience of a perinatal mental illness, and who all know what it's like to struggle as a mother. 

If you'd like to come along to one of our sessions, or find out more about us, please follow the links below or email us hello@themotherkindcafe.org
Find us on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/themotherkindcafe
Follow us on instagram - https://www.instagram.com/themotherkindcafe/
Our website - https://themotherkindcafe.org


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If you'd like to come along to one of our sessions, or find out more about us, please follow the links below or email us hello@themotherkindcafe.org
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Happy Christmas from The Motherkind Café! In this episode the four Motherkind Café coordinators Emily Malden, Katherine Crawford, Kats Handel and Julia Pidgeon talk about all the extra pressures on mums at Christmas, and how we all manage those responsibilities for our family.
Join us on a meandering, wine-accompanied conversation through how we each create ‘the magic of Christmas’ for our often underwhelmed children, and how Kats skilfully used a detached retina this year as a way to convince her partner to share the mental load of Christmas with her. Emily discusses what the mental load is like as a single parent, and Jules shares with us how is she is coping with her first Christmas as a single parent away from her son.
We hope you are managing to enjoy yourself this Christmas, and please remember, if it doesn’t feel like you hoped it would, it’s just one day… Look after yourself, and reach out if you need help.
The Motherkind Café is a perinatal peer support group in Oxford, where women can come at any stage from pregnancy until their children are at school, for support with their mental health. The group is entirely run by volunteers who are all mothers, many of whom have lived experience of a perinatal mental illness, and who all know what it's like to struggle as a mother. 
If you'd like to come along to one of our sessions, or find out more about us, please follow the links below or email us hello@themotherkindcafe.org
Find us on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/themotherkindcafe
Follow us on instagram - https://www.instagram.com/themotherkindcafe/
Our website - https://themotherkindcafe.org


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If you'd like to come along to one of our sessions, or find out more about us, please follow the links below or email us hello@themotherkindcafe.org
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For episode 9 of the podcast,  Motherkind Café coordinators Katherine Crawford and Emily Malden are joined by Kate Thirlwall, a local mum and poet, who has written 4 poetry collections reflecting on her experience of the highs and lows of motherhood. 

Kate talks honestly about how past trauma and an experience in hospital shortly after the birth of her son derailed her breastfeeding experience, and left her feeling like she had failed. 

She also talks about feeling isolated and invisible as a new mum and how her experience of motherhood lead her to start writing poetry. 

You can find out more about Kate's writing and buy her books through her website https://www.mumstheword.press or follow her on instagram @katethirlwall
The Motherkind Café is a perinatal peer support group in Oxford, where women can come at any stage from pregnancy until their children are at school, for support with their mental health. The group is entirely run by volunteers who are all mothers, many of whom have lived experience of a perinatal mental illness, and who all know what it's like to struggle as a mother. 
If you'd like to come along to one of our sessions, or find out more about us, please follow the links below or email us hello@themotherkindcafe.org
Find us on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/themotherkindcafe
Follow us on instagram - https://www.instagram.com/themotherkindcafe/
Our website - https://themotherkindcafe.org


Support the show
If you'd like to come along to one of our sessions, or find out more about us, please follow the links below or email us hello@themotherkindcafe.org
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Our website - https://themotherkindcafe.org

Hello! This is the Motherkind Café podcast, a podcast where we talk honestly about motherhood, mental health, and everything in between. We are three mums, Emily Malden, Katherine Crawford and Kats Handel, and we run a postnatal peer support group in Oxford to give space to women to talk about their mental health in the postnatal period.
This episode we chatted about SLEEP! And how we all dealt with the sleep deprivation that accompanies having a small baby to look after. We discuss the various things we tried to help our babies (and us) to sleep better, including, swaddling,  singing nursery rhymes on repeat for hours and the holy grail of baby sleep 'putting down drowsy but awake...'! We also discuss a how disrupted sleep affected our mental health in the early days

If you are based in Oxford and a mum to children under 5 and would like to join our online community, find us at ‘The Motherkind Virtual Café on Facebook’ or if you have any comments on the episode, you can email us at hello@themotherkindcafe.org
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Emily & Katherine are joined by Dr Guin Webster for this episode of The Motherkind Café podcast. Guin is a clinical psychologist and mindfulness teacher, and one of the original founders of The Motherkind Café, she has also worked in many roles supporting women in the perinatal period, she is a qualified postnatal group facilitator, set up the Oxford sling library and has taught hypnobirthing and mindfulness for birth and parenting amongst other things! We talked to Guin about the concept of ‘Matrescence’, about why mums feel guilty all the time, and how the process of becoming a parent can be such an emotional rollercoaster.

The Motherkind Café is a postnatal wellbeing and emotional support group which normally runs groups in Oxford but is operating virtually during the Covid-19 pandemic.
 
If you’d like to join our online community, find us at ‘The Motherkind Virtual Café' on Facebook’ or if you have any comments on the episode, you can email us at hello@themotherkindcafe.org


Support the show
If you'd like to come along to one of our sessions, or find out more about us, please follow the links below or email us hello@themotherkindcafe.org
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