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Alain Gregoire @dralaing

FounderPresident @MMHAlliance ChairGAMMH PerinatalPsychiatristCampaignerEducatorUniterTVPresenter Wants toreduce intergenerational adversity & mental suffering

Joined April 2023
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In #BabyCommunicationWeek23 Great day 2 National #perinatalmh Course with HilaryKennedy on videointeractionguidance.net& SuePawlby on @BrazeltonUK - 2 huge contributors to improving parent-baby communication Lets spread the skills #AmazedByBabies #earlyyears #ShapingUs #EarlyChildhood
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Babies are born communicators! But we adults can’t always respond and miss out on the joy of the relationship and the long term benefits for us all - but there’s all kinds of kind help out there. Happy #BabyCommunicationWeek23
Brazelton Centre UK@BrazeltonUK
3 Jun 2023
WHY we run this awareness week each year ♥ Please help us to share this if you believe that baby communication matters 🙏🏾 We extend to you the most enthusiastic invitation to get involved in #BabyCommunicationWeek23. Only together can realise this exciting vision!
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Ended a day of fabulous talks at National #PerinatalMH Course with Pete Lawrence on perinatal intrusive/obsessional thoughts: the risks & potential harm are from professional overreaction, not that they could come true. The distress is enormous @maternalocd
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At inspiring meeting of Advisory Board to Royal Foundation Centre for @earlychildhood today. And exited to be chairing the National #PerinatalMH Course tomorrow & Thursday. As usual fantastic speakers and over 150 enthusiastic attendees…Needed as much as ever after 20 years!
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Looking forward to this week: speaking to psychiatrists in 🌞 Cornwall & to #RCPsych PerinatalTraineesConference about #CPTSD - the most common yet most unrecognised & misunderstood #perinatalmentalhealth problem & the value of #traumainformed care to populations & professionals
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If we care about #mentalhealth, we must care about it in 83% of the world’s population: low and middle income countries. And it’s not racist or colonialist for the 17% to act thoughtfully. Read this right through..
Aris Papageorghiou@FetalUltrasound
21 May 2023
Good Sunday read: thoughtful piece by ⁦@richardhorton1⁩ on global health. thelancet.com/journals/lance…
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Day 7, UK #MHAW2023 A reminder that rates of mental health problems are higher in low and middle income countries, and extremely high amongst @refugees 103m forcibly displaced people worldwide -more than ever before. 1/3 are children. Donate.UNHCR.org
Most refugees are mothers and children . UNHCR provides much needed mental health support.

ALT Most refugees are mothers and children . UNHCR provides much needed mental health support.
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Day6 #MHAW23 #traumainformed care is NHS #LongTermPlan policy. Essential to begin to meet needs of the most disadvantaged yet neglected. We can all start by recognising the scale, effects & features of mental injury. See bit.ly/43dCvHF & UKTraumaCouncil.org
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Watch nothing else this weekend of #MHAW2023 until you have watched Ellie’s story. In 3 mins it explains mental injury and the healing power of skilled, sensitive, supportive, humane professionals. The great FNP: ultimate practitioners of #traumainformed care
Family Nurse Partnership@FNPNationalUnit
19 May 2023
Ellie's story" vimeo.com/434022034 Family nurses help enable young parents to provide the best care for their children and also believe in themselves and their ability to succeed. #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek
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Day5 #MHAW23 10% of us & 50% of people in contact with mental health services suffer from #CPTSD, usually the result of childhood traumas. Mostly unrecognised, or labelled as ‘personality disorder’, anxious, self-harming, substance misuse,‘medically unexplained symptoms’..WHY?
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So important for all our futures. This is a critical opportunities to improve the health, wealth and happiness of the population. The science is clear. Please don’t make this a party political issue- it’s too important.
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AiMH UK - The Association for Infant Mental Health@AIMH_UK
16 May 2023
@AIMH_UK Supporting #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek Book your place at our Lunchtime SkillsBox Session - 'Calming Parents, Calming Babies' Thursday 18th May 1.00pm with Sarah Hodgkins 'the Baby Mindful approach' eventbrite.co.uk/e/617030182…
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Day4 #MHAW23 Foetuses & babies sense traumatic environments too - via severe maternal anxiety/depression. Which mothers get this most? Those who experienced trauma, in childhood. How can we nurture foetuses & babies? By nurturing parents during @Earlychildhood #BabyBlindspot
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Day3 #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek The top predictor of lifelong mental & physical health is exposure to adverse childhood experiences #ACEs The earlier, including pregnancy, the greater the effects. Maternal mental wellbeing protects so let’s nurture parents of very young children
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iHV@iHealthVisiting
16 May 2023
Read iHV's response to the Children’s social care strategy: Stable Homes, Built on Love. The Department for Education (DfE) has been seeking views on their proposals to reform children’s social care. bit.ly/3M7oZOV #HealthVisiting
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On day two of #mentalhealthawarenessweek remember we are social animals from conception. Survival, health & happiness relies on the relationships we have with others. The worst traumas are relationship traumas, the greatest joys, relationship joys. Be kind to ourselves and others
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During #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek let us remember we are the first generation to be given the opportunity by science to prevent mental health problems by supporting parents during pregnancy and postnatally and nurturing their efforts on our behalf to care for the next generation
The Royal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood@Earlychildhood
2 May 2023
In this guest essay, Advisory Group member Alain Gregoire examines the importance of parental #mentalhealth and wellbeing in relation to good #earlychildhood development and later life outcomes. centreforearlychildhood.org/… #MMHAW23 #MaternalMentalHealth
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On this first day of UK #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek I had an inspiring meeting with the Hispanophone Perinatal Mental Health Alliance conectaperinatal.com who are working collectively across 21 Spanish speaking countries to improve #perinatalmentalhealth
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The For Baby's Sake Trust
@forbabyssake
12 May 2023
Brilliant film from @NHSsoutheastCDN with @dralaing & other experts explaining intergenerational trauma and how the perinatal period is a unique opportunity to break the cycle @forbabyssake #startinpregnancy Change the Story: Break the Cycle youtu.be/T06N3kJud6U via @YouTube
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You are so right Sandra. Women with #perinatalmentalhealth problems, their babies and families all over the world, fundamentally need the same thing: well-informed understanding, support and sometimes care from other human beings. Keep shouting for them to get it!
Sandra Igwe@sandeeigwe
11 May 2023
Replying to @GibbleJo
I’ve learnt so much! And it’s so interesting how many of our national recommendations are the almost identical globally too.
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