Course Overview
Nest Family’s New Beginnings & Beyond package offers parents the support and guidance every new parent needs. This course runs over 6 weeks, for which each week, a different speaker will focus on a new topic for one hour.
For approximately half an hour, you’ll get evidence-based supportive information and the remainder will feature a Q&A session relating to the weekly theme.
By signing up to the New Beginnings & Beyond course, you’ll also get access to our ‘resources section’ featuring videos and links to relevant documents.
Our New Beginnings Course covers the following topics:
Week – 1
Nourishing Baby
‘A fed baby is best’. Lactation consultants and PHN’s discuss breast, formula and mixed feeding. Feeding difficulties and how you might address them and overcome them. Signposts for when help might be needed.
Week – 2
Routine Development & Sleep
Adjusting to the new way of life with a small baby. Sleep consultants here will look at different ways to encourage safe approaches and work out what will work for you.
Week – 3
Baby Safety and the Unwell Baby
Our workshop run by emergency care specialists, which is interactive as well as supportive, discusses common reasons for illness, baby safety in the home and out and about, how to recognise an unwell infant and what you might do to help your baby when unwell.
Week – 4
Milestones and Baby’s Development
Paediatricians and GPs look at how to best support baby in achieving their milestones and also when it’s important to look for help and assessment.
Week – 5
Looking after Mum – Women’s Health Physiotherapy
Women’s health physiotherapists look at supporting new Mums through their postnatal recovery and prevention of future problems.
Week – 6
Weaning
Paediatric dieticians discuss weaning models, allergies, the latest evidence and why we advise what we do.
