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The Pregnancy Bonding Programme is an innovative and exciting new evidence based training programme. Recently awarded the SME UK’s Enterprise Awards, Best Pregnancy Support Programme 2024, the Pregnancy Bonding Programme is designed to provide comprehensive knowledge and skills to enable Pregnancy Support Practitioners to empower expectant parents to form strong and positive bonds with their unborn babies. The Programme creates positive and lasting attachments during pregnancy that will lead to a lifetime of benefits.
Pregnancy Bonding involves the establishment of a deep and meaningful relationship, characterised by feelings of love, care and attachment between parents and their unborn baby. This bond forms the foundation for a nurturing and supportive environment setting the stage for a healthy parent-child relationship after birth. The benefits of which can last a lifetime…
The foundation stones for Pregnancy Bonding are:
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) states that advice about bonding, together with approaches that can help parents bond with their unborn babies should be offered to ALL pregnant women. However, a survey of over 1000 expectant mums commissioned by the Parent-Infant Foundation in 2023 found that there is a significant lack of service provision, combined with a huge appetite for Pregnancy Bonding support amongst expectant parents:
The Pregnancy Bonding Programme not only raises awareness of the importance of bonding during pregnancy, but also provides advice and practical approaches for expectant parents, the benefits of which will be felt long after baby is born.
Over 300 full colour pages of research, knowledge and insights
300 full colour pages of practical outputs to enhance and support the delivery of The Pregnancy Bonding Programme
100 page, full colour parent facing resource to improve and support outcomes
Join our increasing network of Pregnancy Bonding Accredited Coaches (PBAC's) upon the successful completion of this programme
The Pregnancy Bonding Programme is a sustainable and scalable evidence based training programme that will equip Antenatal Support Professionals to become Pregnancy Bonding Accredited Coaches (PBAC’s) with the necessary knowledge, strategies and insights to facilitate and enhance Pregnancy Bonding through a series of easy to follow practical outputs, each designed to deliver on specific aspects of the curriculum.
Flexibility and Ease of Implementation
Our programme offers the knowledge, collateral and resources to support Antenatal Support Professionals in delivering tailored stand alone Pregnancy Bonding sessions or as a tool kit to easily incorporate the principles of Pregnancy Bonding into existing skills, knowledge and workflows.
The Pregnancy Bonding Programme is a new and innovative programme that enables organisations to comprehensively build upon their workforce capabilities to deliver on this essential and developing area of pregnancy support.
As Tim Laughton MP and Chair of the All-Party Group (APPG) for Conception to Age 2 said:
“Getting it right from the outset – when a child’s brain is developing exponentially – is fundamental to setting a child on the right track to a successful and nurturing childhood and has life long implications.”
We offer specialist In-House Face To Face training for teams of staff, so if your service provision would benefit from the addition of the Pregnancy Bonding Programme, please contact us today.
