We are proud to announce the availability of Reading Well for Families, a new collection supporting the mental health and wellbeing of families during pregnancy and the early years (from conception to age two). This evidence-based book collection provides crucial mental health support for parents, carers, and their wider networks mental health and wellbeing during the first 1,001 days of a child’s life.
The Reading Well for families collection, developed by The Reading Agency in partnership with Libraries Connected and Society of Chief Librarians (SCL) Cymru, recommends helpful reading on topics such as parental wellbeing, perinatal mental health problems (including anxiety, depression, OCD, and birth trauma), and coping with loss (including miscarriage, stillbirth, and neonatal death).
The booklist available at our libraries include titles addressing various family experiences, such as:
- You the Daddy: The Hands-On Dad’s Guide to Pregnancy, Birth and the Early Years of Fatherhood by Giles Alexander (Vie)
- Hello Baby, Goodbye Intrusive Thoughts: Stop the spiral of anxiety and OCD to reclaim wellness on your motherhood journey by Jenny Yip (New Harbinger)
- My Black Motherhood: Mental Health, Stigma, Racism and the System by Sandra Igwe (Jessica Kingsley Publishers)
- How to Help Someone After a Miscarriage by Clare Foster (Trigger Publishing)
The books can be borrowed for free and our library colleagues are ready to guide families to appropriate reading.
