Baby Bonding: from late pregnancy to babies on-the-move

Baby Bonding is a very gentle and effective preventative and early help attachment programme for parents and their babies-in-waiting and babies. It can be delivered with groups, 1:1 or through a home-visiting model and is suitable from 28 weeks of pregnancy. 

 

This flexible programme is based on the latest attachment research which shows that supporting the earliest parent-infant attachment relationship sets the scene for the best outcomes for children right into adulthood.  Pregnancy and the early months after birth represent a “window of opportunity” to share new knowledge with parents.

 

Baby Bonding aims to provide:

·       Lovely local sessions designed to get parents and their babies off to the best start possible together

·       Enjoyable interactive activities and resources to help build a strong relationship both before and after birth

·       An opportunity to explore all aspects of baby development including the amazing baby brain, how babies communicate, how we can help to calm and soothe babies in our fast-moving world, and other important developmental information 

·       Empower and encourage parents as the experts in their baby’s care and how they play the most important part of all

·       Share evidence-based tools and techniques with parents to help them manage the transition to parenthood and the challenges it brings

·       Opportunities to develop a supportive network with other parents that may continue after the programme ends


Baby Bonding practitioner training gives you all you need to become a baby bonding programme practitioner including:

·   A strong grounding in the latest attachment theory and research including what we now know about how attachment security is operationalised within the parent-infant relationship

·   Practical skills sessions equipping you with all you need to deliver baby bonding programmes

· Specialist skills in working with your own soft “baby” or “teddy” to model key attachment mechanisms with parents

·  Access to online printable resources to support delivery including an example 6-week programme

·  Additional creative resources to enhance delivery

·  Pre- and post-programme outcome measures

·  A fully-accredited Practitioner Certification with 12 CPD points towards professional registration 

 

““I really enjoyed the training and found it absolutely fascinating, powerful and practical. I really enjoyed the group experience and look forward to helping parents to tune into their children. Thank you”. ”
— Dr. Malie Coyne, Clinical Psychologist and NUIG lecturer.

Interested in this training?

Please contact us if you are an organisation or group of practitioners working with parents and infants who would like to train in Baby Bonding.