Parents who attended Family

Links courses said...

“It has helped me

understand more about child

development and what I can do to

help me become a

better parent.”

“This programme was fantastically helpful. It is logical and makes so much sense. If understanding and knowledge is power then this course definitely empowers parents to get it right

from the very beginning.”

Coventry

Parents

you’re not alone…

Welcome to the World Family Links Antenatal Programme

If you need this information in another format or language, please contact us Telephone: 024 7678 6949E-mail: parenting@coventry.gov.uk

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Week 6 - Feelings and how we communicate • Feelings and what we do with them • Managing anger • Perinatal depression • Dealing with stress • Communication between adults and babies

Week 7 - Family life with a new baby • Family life with a new baby • Empathy for adults • Special gifts for my baby and a gift for me

Week 8 - Off to a good start • The midwife – labour day • Breast feeding • Post training evaluation and raffle celebration

Course Outline

For practical advice and support to help you manage the demands of bringing up children: Visit us at www.coventry.gov.uk/positiveparenting

or e-mail us at parenting@coventry.gov.uk

or call 024 7678 6949 or call freephone 0800 434 6127

www.coventry.gov.uk/positiveparenting

Week zero - Establishing a group • What’s the Nurturing Programme all about? • Introducing the Antenatal Nurturing Programme• Evaluations

Week one - Welcome to the world• The aims of the Antenatal Nurturing

Programme Building Blocks: The Four Constructs

• Group rules • My baby’s development in the womb • The power of praise

Week 2 - Loving attentiveness, attachment and brain development• Family Values • Nurturing my baby’s development and growing

brain • Family Links Antenatal overview

Week 3 - A celebration of birth• Empathy and the four constructs - a celebration

of birth • Welcome the World Books Changes in You

and Me

Week 4 - Personal power, self-esteem and healthy eating choices• Influences on behaviour • Self-esteem • Personal power • Healthy eating choices

Week 5 - Boundaries, beliefs and values• Babies and children need security, consistency

and boundaries • Helping my baby calm him/herself • Nurturing ourselves

Course OutlineThe Four ConstructsWelcome to the World

The ‘Welcome to the World’ programme is an eight-week group course for those expecting a baby. Delivered by practitioners with specialist Family Links training, the programme aims to:

• Give an opportunity for expectant parents to explore their roots, traditions, hopes and fears for the future.

• Develop strong communication between parents by sharing experiences and ideas.

• Increase parents’ reflective functioning and understanding of their baby: how he devel-ops before and after birth, his physical and emotional needs, the importance of attunement, attachment and empathy.

• Increase parents’ understanding of their own emotional health and the need to nurture themselves to provide the best opportunities for the baby to grow and flourish.

• Enable parents to think about their future as parents, as a couple and as a family.

• Increase parents’ understanding of the ben-efits of breast feeding and the practical tasks of caring for a new baby.

“I am grateful to the group because I have learnt so much, and my partner has succeeded in quitting smoking for when the baby is born.”