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Coping with loss is deeply personal and painful — COPE offers gentle support, guidance, and understanding to help you navigate this difficult time.
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Early parenthood can be joyful, challenging and everything in between. COPE provides you with expert guidance and real insights to help you feel seen and supported every step of the way.
Whether you're a partner, friend, or family member, COPE provides guidance and support to help you care for your loved one and yourself through every stage of parenthood.
COPE provides guidance and resources to help workplaces support the emotional wellbeing of expecting and new parents with care and understanding.
COPE offers tools, training, and resources to support health professionals in providing compassionate, evidence-based care to expecting and new parents.
If you're going through a tough time, you're not alone. The COPE Directory is a supportive first step toward finding the right help, close to home and tailored to your needs
At COPE, we believe every parent deserves access to compassionate support and reliable information. Our mission is to raise awareness, reduce stigma, and empower families facing perinatal mental health challenges.
Your support can make a lasting impact. By donating to COPE, you help to provide vital support, resources, and research for families facing perinatal mental health challenges. Together, we can make sure no parent is alone.
Understand when to seek help, how to take the first step of talking to someone, types of support available, plus how to find specialised perinatal mental health support near you.
After achieving a pregnancy after infertility, many hopeful and expectant parents feel a mix of relief, excitement, anxiety and panic.
After finding out that you have managed to achieve a pregnancy after infertility, many hopeful and expectant parent describe feeling a mix of relief, excitement, anxiety and panic.
When I saw those lines (on the pregnancy test) I felt a bolt of adrenaline. A flash of fear and panic, mixed with utter relief. I ran wildly around the house, like a dog in a storm.
Many men and women also say that despite becoming pregnant after experiencing infertility, their distress and despair that they experienced through months or years of infertility and unsuccessful treatments remained with them. In particular is is common for expectant and new parents to experience ongoing anxiety throughout the pregnancy and in the months following birth.
During my pregnancy I was extremely anxious. I did not buy baby stuff until two weeks before my son was born in case he never arrived…and in the after birth I had recurring nightmares of losing him.
Infertility can cause anxiety both during pregnancy and after the birth of the baby, and there may be a higher likelihood that these parents will be overly protective of their children.
Carrie SymondsAt the beginning of the year, I had a miscarriage which left me heartbroken. I feel incredibly blessed to be pregnant again but I’ve also felt like a bag of nerves.
It is therefore important be aware of feelings of anxiety during pregnancy and in the months following birth and be aware of how your thoughts and feelings are affecting your experience of pregnancy and your parenting in the early months and years of parenthood.
If you continue to experience feelings of distress, there is pregnancy counselling available under Medicare and you can also seek help for anxiety. Links to specialist services can be found on the COPE Directory.
Pregnancy support counselling with a qualified health professional may help you address personal concerns about a current or recent pregnancy (within the past 12 months).
Stay informed and reassured with our free guide, Ready to COPE.
Ready to COPE provides you with supportive weekly updates about your emotional health and mental wellbeing throughout pregnancy and your first year of parenthood. It includes tools, strategies and evidence-based information to help with feelings of stress, and help you to identify if, and when you may need additional support.
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