helplines & support organisations

Being pregnant or being a parent is not always easy and sometimes you need a little extra help than you can find in your immediate circle of friends and family. We have gathered together details of local and national organisations who are able to offer help, advice, support, counselling and friendship.

Some are professional counselling services, others are groups of parents sharing experiences.

• premature babies helplines & support groups
• multiple births helplines & support groups
• childbirth helplines & support groups
• child accidents & accident prevention helplines
• miscarriage, grief & child bereavement helplines & support groups
• feeding concerns support groups
• postnatal depression helplines & support groups
• pregnancy & postpartum complications helplines & support groups
• young parents support
• general health & medicines helplines
• crisis, abuse & domestic violence support
• pregnancy counselling
• special needs helplines & support groups
• fertility & infertility support groups & helplines
• parent support helplines & groups
• family planning support organisations
• parenting telephone helplines
• child health maternal and child health clinics