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Mental health: Mother and baby unit makes a huge difference
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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.
Ms Evans said the unit would make a huge difference to women s recovery.
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