This may mean that the baby will be placed with close family or friends while the mother recovers in hospital, or, if the facilities are available, both she and the baby could go to a specialist mother - and -
baby mental health clinic.
Most studies recruited mothers from a non-clinical population (eight out of the 11 samples; n = 1391) mostly using a response to advert procedure and only three of the 11 samples were recruited from a clinical population (n = 154), including a mother and
baby unit, a
mental health outpatient
clinic and a therapeutic community.