We are recruiting for a study about pets during the #perinatal period. If you live in the U.K. and have #pets (#cats or #dogs), are currently #pregnant or have a baby under 1, please consider signing up! 🤰🏼🐕👶🏼 tinyurl.com/petsperinatal
#mothers #baby #postpartum #pregnancy #wellbeing #mentalhealth

Here’s some great brain building in action.

Watch how mom engages baby in a two step game here. There’s the gentle head tilt and the “ahhh” sound.

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We have made a submission to the Government's spending review calling for investment in:

1⃣ Start for Life
2⃣ Breastfeeding
3⃣ Tackling child poverty
4⃣ Health Visitors
5⃣ Paternity Leave

Read more 👇
parentinfantfoundation.org.uk/8898-2/

It's #TimeToTalk about mental health at every appointment during and after pregnancy. With 70% of expectant and new mums hiding how they're really feeling, it's so important that we normalise the conversation. The more we talk, the more we reduce the stigma surrounding perinatal mental illness.

Ways to make a baby feel loved - smiling, rituals, routines, reading, cuddles, singing, & play - that contribute to brain development & learning www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/jo...

Object permanence is the understanding that things continue to exist, even when they can’t be seen.

And it’s not an understanding your baby comes equipped with at birth.

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Perinatal mental illness can affect anyone during pregnancy and/or after birth. Knowing the signs is the first step to getting support for you or a loved one.

Please share our post this #ParentMentalHealthDay to raise awareness. Together, we can make sure no parent is left struggling in silence.

Your baby is a natural born dancer. (And so are you.)

Music simultaneously activates multiple regions of the brain, not least of which the motor cortex which guides rhythm and movement.

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I’m incredibly pleased to share the LGBTQ+ parents and carers digital zine. To reduce feelings of loneliness and isolation, we asked people to share their thoughts and experiences of being LGBTQ+ and a parent to make an online creative resource. The result is beautiful! heyzine.com/flip-book/d0...

The link would help ! 😂

preconceived.substack.com/p/a-warm-wel...

I only have eyes for you, Dad. 👀

Take a moment to admire not only this sweet “serve and return” conversation between this father and daughter - but the completely unbroken eye contact they share.

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Did you know dad's brains and bodies also change during pregnancy? 🧠

Learn more about how the brains and hormone levels of new dads' change during pregnancy and within the first few months of babies' life in our blog below! 👇

New study from Iceland finds that embedding the Neonatal Behaviour Observation (NBO) system in routine postnatal care improves maternal confidence and knowledge about infant. Outcomes assessed included videoed interaction coded using the EAS

bmcpregnancychildbirth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

There once was a time that you didn’t yet realize you had hands.

It’s a funny thought, but 100% true.

In fact it’s not until somewhere between 2-4 months of age that babies fully “discover” their hands.

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