Connected volunteer perinatal peer supporters are simply kind, caring and non-judgemental people who have been carefully recruited and trained to provide you with support.

Whether you would like someone to have a cup of tea with, to pack your hospital bag with, someone to visit you at home or to support you throughout labour and birth, one-to-one support might be the right option for you.

 

You can self-refer or ask your preferred health/social care professional to refer you.

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Criteria:

Expectant or new parent (baby 3 months or younger)

 Living in Derby and receiving/received maternity care at/under the care of Royal Derby Hospital

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*IMPORTANT SERVICE UPDATE FEBRUARY 2025*

We are pleased to announce we are partially reopening referrals for 1-1 peer support.       To ensure we have capacity to offer safe support and to be able to get support in place in time, we are currently opening up referrals for 1-1 peer support to any parent who is 26 weeks pregnant or less. We will review this again at the end of March 2025.

 

As you may be aware, we do have a successful community offer whereby families can still access perinatal peer support, including a new antenatal group. The timetable for community support can be found here: https://www.connectedperinatalsupport.org/community-support

Whilst families do not need a referral to access this offer of support, we appreciate some may benefit from additional support to do so, we are therefore still able to take professional or self-referrals to help with this.  

 

We would like to reassure you that our plan is to fully re-open the one-to-one offer as early as possible and we will update this page at the earliest opportunity. We are working very hard behind the scenes to increase our capacity to manage the demand in a safe & effective manner.

 

If you are a parent or a referrer and you have any questions around this, please do not hesitate to get in touch.​​​​