Petals is NHS funded by some Trusts - and they’re meant to be good for counselling but it depends where you are. They don’t accept referrals if your Trust doesn’t have a contract with them.
I’m also surrounded by new babies, but seem to be in a better place now the pregnancies are over. I feel like I’m getting my best friend back after all these months and I’m so grateful for that. There are other friends that I probably won’t be as close with again - of my boyfriends friends wives / gfs will have had a new baby by Summer of this year apart from us. I think I will be avoiding them for a while. But my best friend I’m so glad this hasn’t broken us for good and I love her new baby daughter.
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I’m also a team leader in the NHS and having to manage a colleague through her pregnancy, then one of my colleagues has just come back from mat leave 12 weeks pregnant! So there is really no escape. I’ve got an appointment at Tommys Cov, although not for a while yet and I’m starting accupuncture this cycle to help.