Feasibility and Acceptability of a joint mother infant yoga intervention in mothers admitted to an inpatient mother baby unit.

Mothers with severe mental illness in the postpartum may have problems in bonding with their infants and there is a need to develop effective and acceptable interventions. Yoga has been shown to improve social cognition as well as increase oxytocin levels and maybe of value. This paper describes the feasibility and acceptability of a mother-infant yoga intervention in 14 mothers with severe mental illness admitted to a Mother Baby Unit in India.

Women with mental illness seeking conception counselling at a specialist perinatal psychiatry service in India.

Aims: To study the clinical and sociodemographic profile of women with mental illness seeking conception counselling at perinatal psychiatry service. To compare women seeking preconception counselling (PCC) to that of those who sought help after unplanned pregnancy with exposure (UPE) to psychotropics.

Material And Methods: Data was extracted from the clinical records of women between the year 2014-2017 who attended perinatal outpatient services.