Clover MBU Winchester

Welcome to Clover MBU Winchester! An 8-bedded specialist unit for women experiencing perinatal mental health difficulties. Our aim is to support women through acute mental health crisis providing specialist assessment & treatment while nurturing mother & infant relationship

Staff from Clover Ward were shortlisted for star awards but we had many more nominations. All of the nominations were amazing and we’d like to thank everyone who contributed. Out of the 3 we were nominated for we won the IRIS award. #starawards #motherandbabyunit #proud

Phoebe has been shortlisted for the Rising Star Award for the Start Awards 2023. The ceremony is Friday 7th July. We're wishing the best of luck to Phoebe and Ellie & Natalie who have also been shortlisted for the Star Awards for their work on the wards social media #mbu

Clover MBU welcomed a Consultant Perinatal Psychiatrist & Clinical Lead from Ireland. They came to find out more about our service & gather information to support their plans to establish the first MBU in Ireland. #mumandbabytogether #mbu #ireland #perinatalmentalhealth

How do babies communicate and why? Don’t all babies ‘just sleep, eat, cry and have dirty nappies’ We have been looking at all the ways babies communicate with us and are amazed how extraordinary they are! #amazedbybabies

A massive THANK YOU to @Cosatto_Tweets for donating this double buggy to our ward. It will be massively helpful for our mums who have twins/children close in age. We are so grateful ☺️🌈✨

This afternoon we made summer wreath and they look amazing! #mbu #motherandbabyunit #perinatalmentalhealth #summercrafts #wreathmaking

Perinatal anxiety group looked at graded hierarchies, skills we would use & ways to reward ourselves We spoke about what we could do to reward ourselves & free rewards Some of our mums reward themselves by playing @dobblespotit #mentalhealthweek2023 #tohelpmyanxiety

Here is a mini tour of our newly refurbished ward! 🎥😊 #perinatalmentalhealth #mbu #motherandbabyunit instagram.com/reel/CsIkEzHLB…

We held the last session of our Compassionate Mind Group focusing on developing skills to bring online the soothing system. We practiced tuning into our compassionate image to enhance self-talk. Try these 4 steps to take a different perspective when your inner critic is dominant

Last week Clover MBU packed up and moved back to our newly refurbished ward. We’d like to say thank you to Snowdrop ward for letting us use your ward while ours was under construction and thank all the Snowdrop ward staff who supported us clinically 👏🏻

A coronation quiz for Clover 🍀 MBU. Thanks to @waitrose for donating a number of chocolate prizes for the mums on the unit. #waitrose #mbu #coronation #quiz

Day 5 of #maternalmentalhealthweek2023 and todays theme is the Perinatal Positivity Pot What would you add to Clover MBUs positivity pot? #maternalmentalhealth #maternalmentalhealthweek #perinatalmentalhealth #positivity #positivitypot #mentalhealth

We are shining a spotlight on the support offered by MBUs. A while ago we asked mums on the ward what they wish they knew before coming to the unit and tried to answer these questions in our podcast m.youtube.com/watch?v=9mKzpv…

Maternal mental health week instagram.com/reel/CrslQQRgJ…

My name is Hazel and I am the Activities Co-ordinator on Clover MBU. I feel passionate about working with women experiencing perinatal mental illness. I particularly enjoy facilitating different groups, ie. Community meal & Mother and baby groups with the Child Care Practitioners

This was originally meant to just be a story but the first video brightened everyone day on the ward. We thought we’d share it as a full post 😊 #bigAl #BigFlips #pancakes

The star award nominations have closed but we’d love to highlight some of the staff who have been nominated. Daney has been nominated for the lifetime achievement star award! This is a well deserved nomination for all the hard work and dedication on the ward for the last 27 years

National Gardening Day! Here’s an update on the transformation of our garden. We’re excited to start planning what we are going to plant 🪴 We’re hoping to have a herb garden, some vegetables and a variety colourful flowers. Any suggestions or advice would be appreciated 😊

Here are a few picture of our staff members let’s. Pets can be very therapeutic for many people. They are often mentioned when we talk about self soothe activities as something comforting to see, smell and touch. So it is important to celebrate pets can have in our life