The Story of the Cardiff and Vale Perinatal Mental Health Team January 1998 – July 2020

This book tells the story of the Perinatal Mental Health Service that developed in the Cardiff & Vale area in South Wales, UK, from 1998 until the author's retirement in 2020. Childbirth poses a risk to a woman's mental health, but until quite recently there were minimal services in the UK dedicated to managing this risk.Dr Sue Smith outlines how the Cardiff community service gradually developed and expanded with no official funding – alongside a mother and baby unit which closed, was replac