We are honoured to be partnering with the Forget Me Not Children's Hospice based in Huddersfield, West  Yorkshire. This partnership sees FLY Mama provide their unique programs designed to offer essential support and care for mothers following perinatal trauma and loss. 

The...

I can remember it like it was yesterday.

We had booked a private pregnancy scan to meet our baby for the first time. I was lying on the plinth and knew something wasn’t right. I could feel the lady's breathing pattern and body language change and she took a while to speak. Then there it...

Fewer than 20% (1 in 5) of all new mothers, and 29% of first-time mothers, return to full-time work in the first three years after maternity leave. This falls to 15% after five years. 

17% of women leave employment completely in the five years following childbirth, compared to just 4% of...

The perineum is the area of tissue between your vagina and your anus (back passage). Externally it is the area between the vulva and anus the “bridge of muscle” between the two. However, we are 3 dimensional so internally it extends up the depth of your vaginal canal to your anus. It...

Matrescence describes the transformation that we go through as we become a mother. It highlights the change that occurs in our identity and the profound effect that this new and exciting and overwhelming role has on our lives. 

Amy Taylor Kabbaz, a mama of 3, Matrescence Activist and Author...

Within our education pillar of our FLY Mama online support bundles, we share information about the ways in which anxiety can be experienced throughout motherhood.

Anxiety is a common experience and often expected part of being a mother - but it doesn't have to be the norm and it doesn't have to...

TRIGGER WARNING: BIRTH TRAUMA – Please read with care.

What is trauma?

In order to understand what birth trauma is and if you have experienced it yourself, it is useful for us to define what trauma is.

Trauma is described as an experience which causes a deep sense of distress, fear,...