Couple Pressures During Pregnancy - with Perinatal Psychotherapist Sarah Wheatley
In this video, you’ll explore how current maternity and workplace systems often centre the mother and baby while unintentionally excluding partners. While this focus may appear supportive, it can create significant inequalities, leaving partners feeling that their presence, perspectives, and role in the parenting journey are overlooked — despite the baby belonging to both parents.
Featuring Sarah Wheatley, this Reel highlights how the exclusion of partners can begin during pregnancy and continue through birth and early parenthood. When partners feel sidelined or infantilised, it can affect their confidence, their relationship with the mother, and their developing bond with the baby.
Sarah reflects on how these patterns are often culturally embedded within maternity services and employment structures, making them difficult to notice or challenge. However, recognising these barriers is an important first step. Creating more inclusive systems and conversations can help ensure partners feel valued, involved, and able to play an active role in supporting both the mother and the baby.
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