Mental health: Mother and baby unit 'makes a huge difference'

When her baby was less than two weeks old, Toni Evans found herself "wandering around the streets".

The mother-of-two, from Port Talbot, developed depression while pregnant with her second child Sarah.

But with no psychiatric mother and baby unit in Wales - which allows women to be admitted alongside their babies - Ms Evans had to travel 180 miles away from her family to get support.

"It was a horrific journey... to be so far away from everything and everybody I knew," she said.

After years of campaigning, a new specialist clinic has opened in Neath Port Talbot, allowing mothers and babies to stay together during treatment.

Ms Evans said the unit would make a "huge difference" to women's recovery.

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