Championing education for the very early years

IN THIS ISSUE:

• Knowledge base
• Putting knowledge into practice
• Parent education programme
• Organisations for parents

Championing education for the very early years

IN THIS ISSUE:

• Birth trauma education
• Groups for women with PND
• Mellow Bumps
• Socrates and parent education today

Championing education for the very early years

IN THIS ISSUE:

• Groups for very young fathers
• Supporting men with postnatal depression
• Family Foundations - supporting couples
• Exploding the myth that Dads aren’t around
• Are fathers getting a confused message?
• Fathers’ Charter teaching activity 

Focus on Nurturing and Nutrition

IN THIS ISSUE:

• Nutrition in pregnancy: The balancing act
• Father support in promoting breastfeeding
• Baby-led weaning: A review of the evidence
• Fussy eating in toddlers: Thinking beyond the plate
• Bringing Baby Home: A psycho-educational intervention

Focus on play

IN THIS ISSUE:

• Honouring the intimacy and privacy of the parents’ relationship with their unborn baby
• Infant Massage: Is the Medium the Message?
• Playing with the Text: The importance of sharing books with babies
• Creative play spaces: Finding the space for play
• The Incredible Years®: Promoting attachment and infants’ brain development

Focus on Sleep and Soothing

IN THIS ISSUE:

• How lullabies build relationships
• Educating parents about infants’ sleep patterns
• Explaining NICE guidance on co-sleeping
• Music and parenting
• Mindfulness-Based and Childbirth Parenting
• Practice around the world

Focus on Parents and Children with Learning Disabilities

IN THIS ISSUE:

• Antenatal education for parents with Learning Disabilities
• Supporting couples of children with disabilities
• Doula service for women with LD
• Parents as Partners: The Cowans’ parent education programme
• Using music to assist language development

Focus on Education for Calm Parenting

IN THIS ISSUE:

• Leading relaxation activities
• What about controlled crying?
• Helping parents manage toddler tantrums
• Explaining why babies cry
• Remembering Sheila Kitzinger and Andrea Robertson

Open Focus

IN THIS ISSUE:

• Family-centred education and support
• A breastfeeding handbook for antenatal educators
• Online parent education
• Educating parents about the web
• The Neonatal Behavioural Assessment Scale
• Peep Learning Together

Focus on Family Nurse Partnership / Nurse-Family Partnership

IN THIS ISSUE:

• The therapeutic relationship
• Supporting the transition to parenthood
• The role of observation
• Saying goodbye
• Supervision
• Group Family Nurse Partnership
• International replication

Focus on Relationships

IN THIS ISSUE:

• Lesbian couples and antenatal education
• Intimate Partner Violence and maternal-fetal attachment
• Supporting ‘labeled’ parents and their parenting
• Early child development in families with same-sex parents

Focus on preparation and support for labour and birth

IN THIS ISSUE:

• Exploring labour pain in antenatal education
• Debunking the myths around home birth
• Building women’s capacity to mentalize about their children
• Using motivational interviewing techniques in parenting groups

Focus on Attachment

IN THIS ISSUE:

• Supporting women survivors of childhood sexual abuse in labour and birth
• Helping mothers to include fathers in parenting
• Supporting children with disorganised attachment and their families
• The Solihull Approach Antenatal Parenting Group
• Promoting reading every day

Focus on Peer Support

IN THIS ISSUE:

• How volunteers can improve early childhood outcomes
• Pregnancy Sickness Support
• Australian Breastfeeding Association
• Learning from the Empowering Parents, Empowering Communities programme
• A support group for kinship carers
• Maximising social capital through volunteers: Lessons from New Zealand

Focus on Parenting in difficult circumstances

IN THIS ISSUE:

• Perinatal education needs of imprisoned mothers and fathers
• Supporting young mothers
• Guidance for engagement and early intervention with military families
• Mellow Futures programme for parents with learning difficulties
• Group intervention to treat fear of childbirth

Focus on preconception education, FASD, and prematurity

IN THIS ISSUE:

• Making preconception health, education and care real
• The One Key Question® initiative
• Increasing potential of children prenatally exposed to alcohol
• Babies born close to term: What early years’ practitioners should know
• Roots of Empathy programme: Cultivating sensitive parenting

Focus on school readiness

IN THIS ISSUE:

• Maternal stress, depression and anxiety during pregnancy
• Smoking in pregnancy and beyond birth
• Attachment and a secure base
• Adverse events in early childhood
• Sleep and routines
• Technology for toddlers
• Parents as first teachers

Focus on fostering and adoption

IN THIS ISSUE:

• Early placement therapy
• Creating a nurturing home learning environment
• Supporting young parents and their babies in foster homes
• Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-up with foster parents
• Creative therapies for under-5s who have experienced trauma
• PAUSE: Preventing repeat removals

Focus on preparation for labour and birth

IN THIS ISSUE:

• Mindfulness preparation for birth
• Pregnancy, body image and infant feeding
• Teaching yoga in pregnancy
• Helping infants traumatised by family violence
• How women perceive risk in childbirth
• A preventative infant mental health intervention in South Africa
• Pre-conception education about valproate
• Childbirth and Parent Educators of Australia

Focus on vulnerable families

IN THIS ISSUE:

• Promoting resilience in military families
• How work and home influence the parenting of women police officers
• Supporting parents with enduring mental health problems
• Developing a UK Infant Mental Health Competency Framework
• ‘Playing to Our Strengths’ – using improvisation to support FASD families
• PANDA – Perinatal Anxiety & Depression Australia
• Sally’s Column: Working for a happy home

Focus on Breastfeeding, Sleep & Routines

IN THIS ISSUE:

• Infant sleep in evolutionary perspective
• Possums sleep program
• Bedtime routines in early childhood
• BASIS: Baby Sleep Info Source
• Mums and Babies in Mind project
• Peer supporters delivering Video Interaction Guidance
• Tresillian family care centres

Focus on education and support for parents who lose their baby

IN THIS ISSUE:

• Stillbirth in global perspective
• Talking to bereaved parents
• PTSD following childbirth loss
• Care in the next pregnancy
• Teaching parents to sing to their babies in NICU
• Red Nose Australia

The Thousand Critical Days:

IN THIS ISSUE:

• Education and support for parents across the globe

Focus on Early Education

IN THIS ISSUE:

• Enhancing home learning environments
• The ‘50 things to do before you’re five’ project
• Musical experiences at home
• Early childhood media use
• Supporting multilingual families
• Early Education, UK
• Early Childhood Australia

Focus on Fathers

IN THIS ISSUE:

• Supporting fathers’ mental health
• Apps that reach out to dads
• Seeing and caring for the ‘invisible’ fathers
• How fathers support mothers
• Preparing fathers for labour and birth
• Helping fathers cope with sleep deprivation
• Global Fatherhood Charter
• Promoting fathers’ engagement across the world

Focus on childbirth education

IN THIS ISSUE:

• Values in education
• Mixed messages in antenatal education
• Active birth education
• Advocacy for birthing women
• Supporting women with PTSD following birth
• Breastfeeding education in nursery schools
• NCT: UK’s leading charity for parents

Focus on Education and Support for Parents of Twins

IN THIS ISSUE:

• Importance of zygosity knowledge for parents of twins
• Navigating the twin bond
• Breastfeeding twins
• Sleep patterns of twins
• Care for twins, triplets and more across the UK
• Improving health outcomes for twins, multiples and their families
• Where next for the Critical 1000 Days?

Focus on Play

IN THIS ISSUE:

• Chatting to babies
• What is play?
• Storybook reading with young children
• STEM for toddlers
• Dance, music and movement
• Play and Learning Strategies (PALS)
• Playground ideas

Focus on Early Nutrition

IN THIS ISSUE:

• Breastfeeding in lower socio-economic environments
• Formula feeding with plant-based milk alternatives
• Weaning onto a vegan diet
• Managing fussy eating in toddlers
• The Planet Munch family education programme
• Little Minds Matter: A resource to keep the infant in mind
• The Vegan Society, UK

Focus on Education and Support for Under-served and Marginalised Families

IN THIS ISSUE:

• Abuela Doulas – training doulas who ‘look like me’
• African American and Latino populations’ perceptions of parenting programmes in the USA
• Five Pillars of Wisdom – early parenting programmes for Muslim families
• Healthy pregnancy messaging in South African townships
• Happy Baby Communities – supporting mothers in the asylum system
• For Baby’s Sake – breaking the cycle of domestic violence and abuse
• Parents 1st –  supporting perinatal volunteering in disadvantaged communities
• Top Tips for online antenatal education

Focus on How the Pandemic Has Impacted Babies and Parents

IN THIS ISSUE:

• What is DOHaD?
• Intimate Partner Violence and the pandemic
• Adapting the Pregnancy in Mind serviceto virtual delivery
• Understanding and supporting women with eating disorders
• Traumatic birth: Definitions, treatments and the pandemic
• Stress and alcohol consumption in the era of COVID-19
• Understanding the needs of young children and families during the pandemic
• Birdie’s Tree: Supporting social emotional wellbeing of babies and young children

Focus On The Creative Arts in Pregnancy, Birth and New Parenthood

IN THIS ISSUE:

• Art therapy for fear of childbirth
• Group singing in the treatment of postnatal depression
• The role of music in the parent-infant relationship
• Mindfulness techniques for parents and toddlers
• Maternal journaling
• Excersise in pregnancy

FOCUS ON: HOME BIRTH, FREE BIRTH AND INDUCTION OF LABOUR

IN THIS ISSUE:

• Why women freebirth
• Making home birth a choice
• Supporting choice around induction
• Women’s experience of induction
• Reframing early pregnancy
• The Early Years Practitioner in a Perinatal Mental Health Service

Focus on: Preconception health, education and care - Insights from across the world

IN THIS ISSUE:

• The science of preconception
• Improving health and well-being before, between and beyond pregnancy
• The ‘Solid Start’ project in the Netherlands
• Tackling substance use preconception
• Caring for women living with obesity
• Celebrating progress in preconception awareness

FOCUS ON: EDUCATION AND SUPPORT FOR PARENTS OF CHILDREN WITH EXTRA CHALLENGES: SENSORY IMPAIRMENT, AUTISM AND DOWN SYNDROME

IN THIS ISSUE:

• Early intervention for children with autism
• Understanding visual impairment in children
• Helping parents give their babies with visual impairment the best start
• Meeting the needs of parents of a baby with Down syndrome
• Simultaneous bilingual approaches for young children with deafness
• Best practice guidelines for supporting families with a deaf child
• The Elizabeth Foundation for Deaf Children

ADDITIONALLY

• Early intervention in the prison pipeline

FOCUS ON: SUPPORTING ALL PARENTS AND ALL CHILDREN TO THRIVE FROM PREGNANCY ONWARDS

IN THIS ISSUE:

• Care in surrogacy
• Reflections on woman-centred care in the NHS
• AIMS for a better birth UK
• Exploring the views and experiences of fathers during the perinatal period
• Cultural differences and similarities in parenting infants and young children
• Childcare for toddlers and early cognitive development
• Nature pedagogy and Forest School

FOCUS ON: PREGNANCY, LABOUR AND BIRTH WHEN MATERNITY SERVICES FALL SHORT

IN THIS ISSUE:

• Midwives’ lived experiences of promoting normal birth in an Alongside Midwife Unit in the United Kingdom
• Ask women what they want: Integrating pregnancy desire screening into routine primary care
• First trimester miscarriage: Why it matters
• Maternity Choices: Reframing maternity care reform after decades of Australian government inaction
• ‘A lone voice in the wind’: The importance of listening to the testimonies of women during pregnancy, birth, and beyond
• Maternity scandal implications for antenatal teachers: A view from ground zero

FOCUS ON: Supporting parents during the cost-of-living crisis

IN THIS ISSUE:

• How early years practitioners can support the care of young children living in poverty.
• Supporting parents with empathy and compassion
• Vulnerable pupils in Tanzanian schools
• Experiences of homeless women
• Fathering and poverty
• Triple P for Baby

FOCUS ON: Caesarean birth and next birth after a caesarean birth

IN THIS ISSUE:

• Review of the global programme for caesarean use
• The infant microbiome
• Improving maternity care for the marginalised
• Caesarean birth procedure walkthrough
• Supporting women to plan for VBAC

FOCUS ON: Parent education in the digital age

IN THIS ISSUE:

• Virtual resources for parenting the Late Preterm Infant
• Supporting asylum seeking and refugee mothers
• Information seeking during the pandemic
• Self-efficacy in the transition to parenthood
• Creating a safe haven for new parents
• Raisingchildren.net.au – an evidence-based parenting website
• Families and social change
• Advice for parents using mobile technology and social media

FOCUS ON: Complementary Therapies to support pregnancy, birth and early parenthood

IN THIS ISSUE: 

• Prenatal yoga
• Aromatherapy for pregnancy, labour and beyond
• Acuneedling – midwifery 
acupuncture
• Drumming for birth
• Infant massage
• Physical activity during the 
preconception period

AND A NEW COLUMN:
SHER ABOUT PRECONCEPTION

FOCUS ON: Parenting and parenting styles

IN THIS ISSUE: 

• Parenting styles: Past, present and future
• Exploring perfectionism, judgment and burnout in parents
• The realities of Gentle Parenting
• How can autistic parents best be supported?
• Diaologues with Parents programme
• Joys and difficulties of grandparenting
• Surrogacy: What makes a good start?
• Valproate alert

FOCUS ON: Key concerns for parents in the first year

IN THIS ISSUE: 

• Breastfeeding the baby to sleep
• Prolonged crying
• Reading to children to combat poverty
• Colic and the infant microbiome
• Facilitated play groups for parents from different cultures
• The Self Worth After Birth project
• Being therapeutic when you aren’t a therapist