Chloe Mallett, 31, from Watton in Norfolk, was diagnosed with postnatal anxiety after giving birth to her son in June 2025 following a five-year struggle to conceive.<\/p>\n
The former sales administrator had started to pursue adopting a child, when she found out she was pregnant.<\/p>\n
Mallett said while she had a “fantastic” hospital birth, her long quest to get pregnant “triggered my protective nature and I went into overdrive”.<\/p>\n
She said she was troubled by intrusive thoughts and felt unable to leave her son with anyone but his father.<\/p>\n
Mallett said she had been cared for during her pregnancy and for a month after the birth by the same midwife, who she had got to know well. <\/p>\n
But she felt she lost that reassurance once health visitors took over, who made two or three visits over the next four months.<\/p>\n
The new mother said she had been “confused” by her thoughts, before a health visitor told her to go to her GP.<\/p>\n
Mallett said she was initially referred to counselling but felt it did not help. She was then prescribed anti-depressants, which “slowed down” her panic, and she also found solace in talking to fellow new mums at a baby group.<\/p>\n
She said: “Having that group was probably the only thing that got me through the hardest point – being able to talk and someone go ‘yeah, I felt like that’.<\/p>\n
“Sometimes people don’t like to talk about it – I want to be the one to talk about it because if I can help somebody… then that’s fantastic.”<\/p>\n
Mallett said she felt while there was help out there, not enough parents knew about services available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chloe Mallett, 31, from Watton in Norfolk, was diagnosed with postnatal anxiety after giving birth to her son…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":758723,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[59,102,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-758722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-gb","tag-health","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=758722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/758723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=758722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=758722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=758722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}