When Laura Clement found out she was expecting her first child in December 2014 she was ecstatic with excitement. But what should have been the start of one of the happiest times of her life quickly turned into the scariest.
When Laura was pregnant with Ava-Rose she slipped into a depression and started to hear voices. "At times, I would lose grip with reality," she said. The paranoid voices fuelled her depressive thoughts and convinced her that she would have her baby taken away from her. "They were real to me, it was just like me and you having a conversation now, that is what it felt like," Laura said.
At the time, Laura, from Maerdy in the Rhondda, sought help and was prescribed anti-depressants but she said these made things worse. Unbeknown to her, she was suffering from perinatal psychosis, this then developed into postpartum psychosis when her daughter was born.
