New mothers everywhere, rejoice, for the NHS has your back. And your sanity, apparently. Data released last week shows that 64,000 women accessed specialist perinatal mental health services last year, a rise in demand of 10 per cent compared to 2023. Describing the newly provisioned services as ‘lifesaving’ to perinatal women – the period encompassing pregnancy and one year postpartum– the NHS went on to detail the importance of maternal mental health, adding that it was ‘vital that women did not suffer in silence’ or ‘feel stigmatised’.