Bringing Baby Home Workshop
About this class
The Bringing Baby Home workshop is a research-based approach to teach new parents skills to help couples manage the changes that occur when a child is born. It increases the joy of parenting and gives new parents the tools they need to be the best parenting team possible. The workshop provides the opportunity to prevent future problems that new parents may encounter when faced with the challenge of parenthood. It allows couples to keep their friendship strong and develop strategies for parenting intentionally.
The workshop teaches couples how to:
- Increase friendship in their relationship
- Deal effectively with conflict
- Involve dad in infants care and parenting
- Improve the quality of parent-infant interaction
- Recognizes the psychological and emotional needs of the child
Benefits of participating in the workshop
Benefits for Couple:
- Parents report more satisfaction in their relationship and are more likely to stay together despite adversity
- Better prepared to bring their baby home
- Better equipped to work together in effective co-parenting, allowing the father to be more involve and fore a more secure father-infant attachment
Benefits for children:
- Had stronger language skills
- Smiled and laughed more during family play.
“Bringing Baby Home has given us the knowledge and skills to cope constructively with the many changes brought about by the birth of our child. We now have the tools and information to help us make this transition easier on everyone (our baby, our relationship…ourselves). Thank you! -former Bringing baby Home participant”
For more information on upcoming workshops please contact us at [email protected]