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Postnatal depression – which affects a minority of both mothers and fathers to newborns – is still under-recognised and under-researched, while Britain’s crumbling healthcare system means more people aren’t getting the help they need. Eloise Hendy speaks to many on the frontline fighting for change.

Cyprus-based femtech start-up Soula app has partnered up with Google to provide pregnancy and parenting support. Soula will use the tech giant’s Med-PaLM, a large language model (LLM) designed to generate answers to medical questions, to offer women pregnancy, postpartum and maternity support via its “AI-powered” assistant. The app, previously backed by model Natalia Vodianova, will be able to answer questions on pregnancy and maternity matters and offer information regarding various health-rela