New report promoting safer sleeping for babies in England
Change is needed to the way safer sleep information is communicated, if risks to babies from unsafe sleeping practices are to be reduced, according to a new report from Oxford, UCL, Bristol and Newcastle Universities. This was prompted by government, in the wake of...
London Child Safety Update – Sudden Unexpected Deaths in Infancy: Advice for people working with children, young people and families
Aims: to summarise the evidence about sudden unexpected deaths in infancy (SUDI) to develop an evidence-based resource about prevention of SUDI that can be shared with key stakeholders Key facts about sudden unexpected deaths in infancy: SUDI is the sudden and...
Co-sleeping with your baby
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suoccf8D1ns Some parents choose to share a bed or other sleep surface (also known as co-sleeping) with their babies. Read our advice on how to co-sleep more safely. To reduce the risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) the...
Day & Night
So, looking to the morning, really help your baby to begin to understand the difference between night and day. When it is morning, open the curtains and talk in a cheery and animated way take down the blackout curtains. Help the baby to begin to learn the difference...
Love them, cuddle them, put them down when they’re asleep
Naturally, new-born babies and all little ones need lots of love and cuddles, and sometimes it may be best for you to ‘wear’ your baby in the day time to get some chores done, but every day at one or two naps start to practice teaching your little one to self-settle....
Help With Crying
So, what can be done to help the new-born who has got his/her day and nights muddled up because of course babies did not know day from night in the womb. Now one of the classic things we all do as full time working antenatal Mums was to eat our main meal in the...
New-Born babies
Congratulations new parents, it was lovely to meet so many of you recently at the baby and Toddler Show at Sandown park. Some of you are expecting baby soon and some later in the summer, and some have recently had their babies. So many CONGRATULATIONS! Is it goodbye...