You can smell a new mother’s loneliness. Unless you’re the state | Nell Frizzell

As a new mum, I know loneliness cuts deep – and the lack of services for parent and child plays a large part in this

It is the strange lot of young mothers to be never alone, but often lonely. You may have a baby stuck limpet-like to your breast, hip or lap, but for many women, particularly those heroic superbeings we call single mothers, loneliness stalks the days like a tiger.

Related: Our health system is failing new mothers | Maggie Gordon-Walker

Motherhood can be lonely for everyone – but for the millions on low incomes the situation is desperate

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