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Just wondering if anyone knew any services that women with physical disabilities can use to help with safe births and maternal satisfaction, I've seen a lot for antenatal and postnatal but not a lot of services dedicated solely for labour.

Hi everyone :) My name is Sophie and I'm a student at Loughborough University studying Product Design. I am looking for parents with mobility impairments to complete my anonymous survey around how playtime activities for children can be made more accessible for disabled parents. It will take less than 10 minutes to complete and will be hugely appreciated. Thank you in advance and please do not be afraid to contact me if you have any further questions. This research has been granted approval by the Loughborough Ethics Committee. https://lboro.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/making-childrens-playtime-activities-m...

My daughter has learning difficulties and a referral was made to Children's Services. Nothing has been done yet, but the Midwife keeps on pushing the situation and, actively got the referral re-submitted to Children's services, I am concerned that they may choose to remove the child from my daughter's care and wondered under what circumstances they could actually do that. Although the referral was for additional support, something feels "off" and it is concerning, Not sure how to feel or what to do.... Any thoughts please. Kind Regards Lesley.

A client is diagnosed with a brain injury. She has frequent headaches and requires 10h of sleep at night with a 3h nap during the day to function at a safe level. What supports are available/what can I put in place before the infant arrives.

Things were going so well. I was fighting to be back in my son's life. Having weekly supervised contact with him. I have severe mental illness. It doesn't affect my judgement but it makes social interaction painfully stressful, and it's painfully stressful for me to concentrate. As you can imagine that causes problems. I've had to spend my life really learning how to communicate automatically. I tend to be very open and honest about my disability, admittedly bringing it up when I think it's relevant (rather than needing someone to ask about it), rather than hiding it. I don't find anything is wrong about that. My disability is not some scary subject to keep to myself. I'm not ashamed of it, I don't control it. Social worker doesn't agree. I'm not allowed to talk about the details of my mental illness when my son can hear. It's "inappropriate" for an 8 year old to hear. When I say I can't concentrate more easily around people, it's not a choice, the social worker said "it needs to be" (a choice). But it's not. I am what I am. It's easier when I'm around my son and interacting with him, but if someone else starts making conversation, it's difficult for me to notice that I'm talking about the forbidden subject of my disability and how it affects me. My son said, two weeks ago, that he loves me. I hadn't heard that for two and a half years. And now I'm not going to see him again. Because I can't get rid of my disability and be the parent social services want me to be. I just feel sick. Stuck. I hate my brain. I hate myself.

Hi I am an Occupational Therapist, parent to two small children and registered Yoga and Pregnancy Yoga Teacher. I am keen to launch (and am in the very early planning stages) an accessible pregnancy/post natal yoga/movement based class for parents to be/parents in this community and would like to hear from anyone about what would most helpful and practical. I am planning this as an online class, chair and/or mat based over blocks of 4-6 weeks. I want it to offer a movement and meditation practice that supports parents to be/parents through the journey of preparing for the birth of their baby and in the post natal period after their baby is born (and all the joyful challenges that includes!!) As an OT I want this to be adaptive yoga which also meets the functional/every day needs of the community of parents so will design a practice that offers support for your own mobility/feeding/baby care/your own self care/ etc. The practice will be available with a suggested cost and a 'what you would like to pay' option to hopefully ensure it is inclusive as possible. Please contact me and let me know if this sounds like a class that might be of interest to you. I can speak with you directly and offer lots more information about prenatal/post natal yoga. Feel free to look at me on linked in/www.jessamychanelyoga.com. thanks Jessamy

I am a student health visitor completing a project on how health visitors can best support parents with a learning disability. I am focusing mainly on the assessment of parenting capacity. The aim is to improve the assessment process so that strengths and areas for further learning can be identified so health visitors can support parents with a learning disability to reach their full potential. I would love to hear peoples thoughts and experiences on this. How you think health visitors could support parents and any extra support you feel would be good. Any information you share would be greatly appreciated. I may use your words in my project but I will not use the name of this forum and I will not use your user name. Thank you for reading. Best wishes and take care. Gina