3 August 2025

Another football season kicks off for Chris!

For the last couple of years, APP volunteer Chris has made it his mission to raise awareness of postpartum psychosis.

Not only is he doing talks, appearing in magazines and academic journals, he's also taken on a personal challenge to try and watch a match at the nearest football ground to every Mother and Baby Unit (MBU) in the country, wearing his special APP footie top, and getting a mention in as many matchday programmes as he can, as well as visiting the local MBU where possible.  Read about all his adventures so far here.

He's already been to his first fixture of his third season as part of this challenge. Here's his latest match report...
'Season 3 of my postpartum psychosis football awareness tour....HERE WE GO!
So far I have been to 10 football matches around 9 MBUs. And on Saturday 2nd August 2025, I kicked off my 3rd season by seeing my 11th match at Colchester United!
I went to this match with my dear friend Katie, and her son and nephew. It was Katie's nephew's first ever live match.  My home form woes looked set to continue - until an 87th minute Colchester equaliser! Phew!
Colchester put a lovely entry in their digital matchday programme about my challenge, postpartum psychosis and the MBUs.

But the standout moment was definitely being featured on the big screen in my MBU/APP football shirt, with the stadium announcer giving me a shout-out and sharing my challenge with everyone in attendance—both before the match and during halftime!

This was such an incredibly unique and emotional moment for me. I knew that I was going to be featured on the big screen, which was incredible itself, but to hear the stadium announcer share my challenge to the almost 6000 fans in attendance was just amazing. 
The JobServe Community stadium is less than 30miles from the Rainbow Unit MBU in Chelmsford.  And I actually got to visit this MBU on this trip.  It had a room with the handprints of mums and babies who had stayed there with positive affirmations which was just beautiful to see.
I am so incredibly proud of this challenge. And I am loving every moment of it!'
Chris is aiming for the next stop on his tour to be Notts County on 15th November - and you can follow his progress on Instagram: @wasley_postpartumpsychosis