New units for perinatal mental health disorders: Description of the first 150 dyads attended at Mother Baby Day Hospital CLINIC-BCN

Perinatal mental health care in the Italian Mental Health Departments: a national survey

“…Concerning inpatient treatment, the Italian mental health service lacks MBUs and is therefore unable to provide inpatient treatment to women requiring psychiatric acute admission in the first postnatal year without forcing them to be separated from their child. Notably, despite not achieving national coverage, other European countries have established MBUs, including France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Germany, and recently Spain [44,4,45]. As for community treatment, we found that less than half of the Italian MHDs make available specialist expertise on psychopharmacological prescription during pregnancy or breastfeeding.…”