Links
Advocacy advice and legal
- Citizens Advice Bureau
The Citizens’ Advice service helps people resolve their legal, money and other problems by providing free information and advice from over 3,000 locations, and by influencing policymakers.
- Health and pregnancy grant
Money for mum to be £190 for every mother to be. From April 2009, you can claim a one-off, tax-free payment from H M Revenue & Customs (HMRC) if you’re a mum-to-be who is at least 25 weeks’ pregnant. The payment is called a ‘Health in Preg
- Maternity Action
Work to end inequality and promote the health and well-being of all pregnant women, their partners and children from before conception through to the child’s early years.
- Patient Advice and Liaison Service (PALS)
A DOH funded service based in many hospitals and PCT areas but independent of those hospitals and PCT areas. PALS are there to deliver health information and empower patients’ experience and provide explanations and resolutions where there are misundersta
- Working Families
Helps children, working parents and carers and their employers find a better balance between responsibilities at home and work.
Alternative routes to parenthood
- Adoption Information Line
Adoption web site striving to provide the most relevant and interesting information on adoption available anywhere on the Internet.
- AdoptionUK
The only national self help group run by and for adoptive parents and foster carers, offering support, before, during and after adoption.
- After Adoption
After Adoption is an adoption support charity and helps anyone with a connection to adoption as well as finding families for children currently in the care system.
- British Association for Adoption and Fostering (BAAF)
Work with everyone involved with adoption and fostering across the UK. They have regional and country offices in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, providing services to meet the needs of some of the UK’s most vulnerable children and young peo
- COTS
Surrogacy advice, help and support.
- Fertility UK
Fertility UK is the national fertility awareness & NFP service for the UK. They provide information to the general public and health professionals on all aspects of fertility awareness, including fertility awareness education for couples planning preg
- Fertility.com
Advice and information about trying to conceive and seeing fertility specialists
- Fostering Network
Support and advice for foster carers.
- HFEA Surrogacy information
Surrogacy is when another woman carries and gives birth to a baby for the couple who want to have a child.
- Intercountry Adoption Centre (IAC)
A UK registered charity. It aims to ensure that, if people do contemplate adoption from another country, they have the means of making informed decisions, with a clear understanding of the issues involved.
- One at a time
A professional-led site, for both patients and professionals, aimed at reducing the risks of multiple pregnancies from fertility treatment.
- Resolve
An online community for women and men living with infertility, providing information and support during their family building journey.
- SurrogacyUK
UK based voluntary organisation that provides information and support for anyone with an interest in surrogacy.
- Tears and Hope
An infertility awareness project with an emotional video, which explains in words and pictures accompanied by music one couple’s journey so far, as they live their life embracing infertility.
- The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA)
The UK’s independent regulator, overseeing safe and appropriate practice in fertility treatment and embryo research. They licence and monitor centres carrying out IVF, donor insemination and human embryo research. They also provide a range of detailed inf
Campaigns
- Baby Loss Awareness Campaign
Five charities and not-for-profit organisations working together to promote the wave of light in October each year and Baby Loss Awareness Week. Offers a forum to encourage parents to express and ritualise their own losses if they want to and offers infor
- DES Action UK
A medical charity whose aim is to provide information to the public and medical practitioners about DES (diethylstilbestrol), a synthetic oestrogen prescribed in the UK until 1975 to prevent miscarriage. One of the side effects is to damage the reproducti
Emotional support following the loss of a baby
- Antenatal Results and Choices ARC
Support and Information for parents based with the difficult decision to end a pregnancy as a result of disease and disorders identified through antenatal testing.
- Baby Loss Awareness
An opportunity for parents to unite with others across the UK to show their support for the annual Baby Loss Awareness campaign, which focuses on International Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Day every October.
- Babyloss
A not for profit organisation that offers support and information from a website base. They refer to themselves as a home for babyloss on the web.
- British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP)
Governing body of reputable practitioners.
- Child Death Helpline
Advice and support following the death of a child of any age.
- Childhood Bereavement Network
A national, multi-professional federation of organisations and individuals working with bereaved children and young people. It involves and is actively supported by all the major bereavement care providers in the UK.
- Coping with a traumatic event
Leaflet publiched by the Royal College of Psychiatrists
- Counselling Directory
A support network of UK counsellors and psychotherapists, with information on their training and experience, areas of counselling, fees and contact details.
- Cruse Bereavement Care
Support and information, advice, education and training on all matters relating to bereavement.
- Miscarriage Association (MA)
Information and support about miscarriage in the UK.
- Molar Pregnancy
This website provides information and support to women who are currently suffering or have previously suffered from a molar pregnancy.
- Samaritans
Samaritans provides confidential non-judgmental support, 24 hours a day for people experiencing feelings of distress or despair, including those which could lead to suicide.
- SANDS (Northern Ireland)
- Stillbirth and Neonatal Death Society (SANDS)
Information and support for those affected by the death of a baby at birth or neonatally.
- Sudden Trauma Information Service helpline
Information and advice on many issues which surface in the wake of a sudden traumatic experience.
- The Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths
Charity working to prevent sudden deaths and promote health. FSID funds research and supports bereaved families
- Trauma and traumatic stress
Advice on managing the emotional impact of trauma.
- Understanding depression
Information leaflet produced by MIND.
Family planning
- Brook
Brook Advice on sex and contraception for under 25s.
- Menstrual cycle and pregnancy
Video by NHS Choices on the menstrual cycle and how pregnancy is achieved
- The Family Planning Association
The fpa (Family Planning Association) is the UK’s leading sexual health charity. Their purpose is to enable people in the UK to make informed choices about sex and to enjoy sexual health. The also provide a helpline, information, local clinics, and traini
Health
- British Thyroid Association
The website of doctors and specialists who manage the condition.
- British Thyroid Association
The website of doctors and specialists who manage the condition.
- British Thyroid Foundation
UK based patient led supporting organisation.
- Cystic Fibrosis Trust
UK’s only national charity dedicated to all aspects of Cystic Fibrosis.
- DES Action UK
A medical charity whose aim is to provide information to the public and medical practitioners about DES (diethylstilbestrol), a synthetic oestrogen prescribed in the UK until 1975 to prevent miscarriage. One of the side effects is to damage the reproducti
- Health and Social Care in Northern Ireland
The gateway to Health & Social Care Services in Northern Ireland.
- Infertility Tutorials
An educational web site that guides women and their partners through the causes, diagnosis, treatment and prognosis of ectopic pregnancy
- NHS Choices
NHS Choices has patient information on ectopic pregnancy, including the symptoms, diagnosis and treatment.
- NHS Direct
The National Health Services own help line and on-line health information service.
- Pelvic Partnership
Information and Support with Pelvic Girdle Pain in pregnancy (also known as SPD (Symphysis Pubis Dysfunction))
- Quit
Independent charity whose aim is to save lives by helping smokers to stop.
- The Endometriosis Society
UK charity which supports women living with endometriosis. They provide information and support, and work to increase understanding through campaigning and awareness
- The Pelvic Pain Support Network
The Pelvic Pain Support Network is a patient led organisation with a board of trustees who are all patients or carers, and is run entirely by volunteers. They have an advisory panel of clinicians, researchers and health professionals who have an interest
- Women’s Health Concern
Women’s Health Concern is a charitable organisation which aims to help educate and support women with their healthcare by providing unbiased, accurate information on a wide range of women’s health issues.
Living life without children
- More to life
More to Life is the largest national charity providing support to those who live involuntarily childless. More to Life embraces all of those who are involuntarily childless irrespective of whether they are people who have moved on from treatment, have nev
Mental health organisations
- MIND
Mind is the leading mental health charity in England and Wales.
- Rethink
Rethink, the leading national mental health membership charity, works to help everyone affected by severe mental illness recover a better quality of life.
- SANE
SANE raises awareness and respect for people with mental illness and their families, secures better servicesand undertakes research into the causes of serious mental illness
Parenting and children
- Childline
Telephone helpline for children and teenagers who want to speak to a safe adult outside the family home.
- Kelly Mom
Breastfeeding and parenting support.
- Kidscape
Support with and information on bullying.
- La Leche League
Help mothers worldwide to breast feed through mother-to-mother support, encouragement, information, and education, and to promote a better understanding of breastfeeding as an important element in the healthy development of the baby and mother.
- National Childbirth Trust (NCT)
Charity providing information about pregnancy, birth and early parenthood. They operate a branch membership structure operating at both local and national levels across Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Ireland offering support, information and educat
- NetMums
National and local information and support for parents.
- NSPCC
Help for children, teenagers and adults who want to stop child cruelty.
Pregnancy and birth
- Association of Early Pregnancy Units (AEPU)
Website for both patients and professionals with a useful resource to locate your nearby Early Pregnancy Unit or Early Pregnancy Assessment Centre/Clinic.
- National Childbirth Trust (NCT)
Charity providing information about pregnancy, birth and early parenthood. They operate a branch membership structure operating at both local and national levels across Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Ireland offering support, information and educat
- Pelvic Partnership
Information and Support with Pelvic Girdle Pain in pregnancy (also known as SPD (Symphysis Pubis Dysfunction))
- The Early Pregnancy Information Centre
A patient information resource from the AEPU.
- Understanding post-natal depression
Information produced by MIND.
- What should I eat when I am pregnant?
Advice from the Food Standards Agency.
Relationships
- Relate
Relationship counselling and advice.
- Worth Talking About
Information and advice about sexual relationships and sexual health.
Remembrance
- Ectopic Pregnancy Trust Candle website
You can light a virtual eternal candle tribute to remember your baby, or to remember other significant events you wish to mark in this way.
- Saying Goodbye Services
A set of organised services for parents, family and friends to remember the loss of their baby which take place between September and December.
Trying to conceive
- Fertility Friend
Web site for women trying to conceive
- Fertility.com
Advice and information about trying to conceive and seeing fertility specialists
- Home Pregnancy Test kit information
Home pregnancy test and ovulation predictor test information and images.
- Hysterosalpingogram
Information about the HSG procedure
- Hysteroscopy
Information about this procedure (contains diagrams).
- Menstrual cycle and pregnancy
Video by NHS Choices on the menstrual cycle and how pregnancy is achieved
- NHS Livewell
NHS advice on trying to conceive a baby
- Taking Care of your Fertility
A website for those who are interested in learning more about the Fertility Awareness Method as a means of natural pregnancy achievement.
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