after my baby is born

Counselling
Sometimes pregnancy can put a strain on your relationships with your partner, friends and family or guardians. It can help to talk to someone not involved with your situation who has experience in talking to young people about difficult feelings.

Whatever decision you have made regarding your pregnancy, you may well have very confusing feelings. Counselling involves talking about your feelings to someone who can help you to make sense of them. The counsellor will not advise you, but will listen to you and support you in finding ways of coping with your feelings or even your new lifestyle. Worries could be about relationships, feelings of pressure, feeling lonely or depressed. You may be asking yourself, who am I? Did I do the right thing? Or you may not be able to pinpoint what’s wrong.

Hear & Now is a free counselling service for all young people between the ages of 11 and 18, who live or study in the borough of Redbridge. If you would like an appointment to meet with a counsellor, you can phone and give your details and when a suitable appointment is free, an appointment letter will be sent out to you. If you do not want to phone yourself, any other adult who knows you well or professional who you are in touch with, can phone or send in a referral form on your behalf.

Hear & Now 0844 600 1154
First Floor
Broadway Chambers
1 Cranbrook Road
Ilford, Essex
IG1 4DU
e-mail: info@hearnow.org.uk
Website: www.hearnow.org.uk

Brook offer a “someone to talk to” service. You can go along for emotional support or just for a chat. You don’t have to be having sex to go along to Brook.

Brook at Loxford Polyclinic
Loxford Polyclinic
417 Ilford Lane
Ilford, Essex
IG1 2SN

Thursday 5.15pm–7.30pm
Saturday 2pm–4pm
Call Ask Brook on 0808 802 1234 for more information

Brook at Ilfomation
Ilfomation
Sylvan Road (off Hainault Street)
Ilford
IG1 4EQ
Monday 4–7pm

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