What is Maternal Mental Health Awareness Week?
Maternal Mental Health Awareness Week is a week-long campaign dedicated to talking about mental health problems before, during and after pregnancy.
The week is all about:
- raising public and professional awareness of maternal mental health problems
- advocating for women and families impacted
- changing attitudes
- helping people access the information, care and support they need to recover.
This year's theme and activities
PMHP UK – official organisers of Maternal Mental Health Awareness Week have announced that to mark 10 years of progress, partnership and lived experience leadership, the theme for 2026 will be A Decade of Voices.
Daily themes
PMHP UK's daily themes for this year (2026) are as follows:
- Monday - A Decade of Voices: Celebrating 10 years of progress
- Tuesday - Voices of Experience: Spotlighting parents’ lived experiences across the decade
- Wednesday - World Maternal Mental Health Day: Joining the global community to raise awareness and break the stigma
- Thursday - Voices of Care: Highlighting the vital collaboration between families and professionals
- Friday - Voices of Change: Focusing on advocacy, policy shifts, and Lived Experience changemakers
- Saturday - Voices of Loss and Healing: Providing sensitive, supportive messaging for those navigating perinatal trauma, miscarriage, stillbirth and baby loss
- Sunday - Voices of the Future: Looking ahead to the next generation of support, innovation and progress
Maternal Mental Health Awareness Week | Maternal Mental Health Alliance
