FOCUS ON: Fostering and Adoption

IN THIS ISSUE: 

• Taking prenatal experiences seriously when working with adoption
• Three mothers who placed their babies for adoption
• Commitment in fostering babies and infants
• Child development-based planning for children, carers and adoptive parents
• Maintaining cultural connections for children adopted transracially
• Parenting children through adoption, fostering or kinship arrangements
• Supporting adoptive families in the early days of becoming a family
• Barnardo’s – changing lives for over 150 years

FOCUS ON: Parenting indoors and outdoors

IN THIS ISSUE: 

• Helping parents enjoy the outdoors with their baby
• Risky play
• Autonomy supportive care
• Early motor development
• Toilet training healthy children
• Healthy screen use for young children

FOCUS ON: Informed consent, the birth environment & postnatal planning

IN THIS ISSUE: 

• Informed Consent when women are deaf 
• Safer sleeping messages for families at risk 
• Salutogenic birth spaces 
• Managing Pelvic Girdle Pain 
• Planning for the postpartum 
• Foundation practices for integrated postnatal care/ education 
• Singing classes for pregnant and postpartum women 

FOCUS ON: Breastfeeding, maternal mental health and social support

IN THIS ISSUE: 

• Does breastfeeding protect maternal mental health?
• Utilising the COM-B Model & Behaviour Change Wheel to enhance breastfeeding
• Impact of breastfeeding initiatives on maternal health
• Creating a local perinatal education and wellbeing service
• Parent-to-Parent support for marginalized parents
• Grandmothers’ role in support of new mothers
• Preparing school students to be good-enough parents
• ‘The Wool Brain’