Support parents to provide an environment which fosters the infant's emotional, behavioural, social and cognitive development
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Who |
- Baby to breast following delivery
- Skin-to-skin care post delivery
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- Midwives in delivery suite
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- Skin-to-skin contact53
- Infant carriers54
- Breastfeeding support55
- Cues-based infant massage programmes56 57
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- Midwives
- Health visitors
- Children’s centre practitioners
- GPs
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- Getting to know your Baby’ app34 for parents and website for professionals
- Social baby book and DVD58
- Zero to Three ‘Healthy Minds’ resources59
- Baby Express newsletter57
- Standardized tools to teach parents about the social baby (e.g. Brazleton Neonatal Behavioural Assessment Scale and Newborn Behavioral Observations (NBO) system
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- Midwives
- Health visitors
- Children’s centre practitioners
- GPs
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- PEEP62
- Baby express63
- Bookstart64
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- Health visitors
- Children’s centre practitioners
- Early years librarians
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- Bath and bedtime routines
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- Midwives and health visitors at every postnatal contact
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- NHS Information Service for Parents66
- Netmums67 online support group for parents
- Family Information Service, Local services (i.e. Warwickshire County Council)68
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- Provided jointly by NHS, Department of Health and Department for Education Voluntary sector
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- Promote parental reflective function
- Train practitioners to ‘model’ reflective parenting (Universal)
- Minding the Baby Programme (e.g. NSPCC)69 (Targeted)
- Nurturing Parents Programme (e.g. PEEP)43 (Targeted)
- Promote ‘Secure Base’ parenting
- Train practitioners to ‘model’ secure base behaviour (Universal)
- Circle of Security programme (Targeted)
- Specialist intervention for parent-infant relationship difficulties
- Video-interaction guidance71 72 (Targeted)
- Parent-infant psychotherapy (i.e. Watch, Wait and Wonder73)
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- Health visitors
- Children’s centre practitioners
- Early years librarians
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