Understanding your preterm or sick baby now you’re home
- Postnatal (0-6 Months)
- English
- Modules
- Voiceover
-Course Modules
1.1 What is this course about?
1.2 What changes have you noticed?
1.3 Every cloud has a silver lining
2.1 How do we know about the teenage brain?
2.2 The main changes
2.3 The prefrontal cortex
2.4 The amygdala
3.1 The amygdala and reading faces
3.2 Knowing what you are feeling
3.3 The experiment
3.4 About the results
3.5 What could this mean?
3.6 What can parents do to help?
3.7 What can you do to help?
3.8 Some more ideas
4.1 Risk and brain development
4.2 Risks: positives and negatives
4.3 The accelerator and the brake
4.4 So who has to be the brake?
5.1 Risk and friends
5.2 An experiment
5.3 The results
5.4 More results
5.5 How does the brain affect risk taking?
5.6 Teenagers and gangs
5.7 How can we help our brain?
6.1 You and your friends
6.2 Research
6.3 An experiment
6.4 Teenagers' reactions
6.5 Why does this happen?
6.6 What can help?
7.1 You and your sleep
7.2 Change in your sleep pattern
7.3 Why do you need your sleep?
7.4 The growth hormone and the sleep hormone
7.5 Changing to an adult pattern
7.6 What can help?
7.7 Sleep and emotions
8.1 The positives
8.2 Eventually...
8.3 And finally...
9.1 Congratulations and feedback questionnaire
9.2 Acknowledgements and certificate
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About this course
Having a preterm or sick baby cared for in a hospital can be an overwhelming experience, filled with uncertainties, fear, and stress. Returning home and caring for your baby without the support of the medical team you’ve become used to can also be a challenging transition. This online course has been designed to help you learn about your baby’s development, understand their needs and read their cues, but also to support your emotional wellbeing.
Understanding your preterm or sick baby now you’re home is for all parents, grandparents and carers of babies who have experienced neonatal care, now settling them in at home. It has been designed to help you develop a strong and connected relationship with your baby and includes both practical information about caring for your baby as well as information about their developmental needs and guidance for feeding, sleeping and crying.
Understanding your preterm or sick baby
Understanding your preterm or sick baby now you’re home has been developed by a team of Clinical Psychologists, Child Psychotherapists, Healthcare professionals and, importantly, parents with shared experience. Everything you will follow and learn in the course has been informed by experience and is designed to be practical, to help you and your family navigate your everyday experiences. You’ll also learn about your own emotional health needs and nurture your relationship with your baby.
The course follows 12 Modules, each taking around 20 minutes and broken up into manageable chunks called Units.
The first few Modules cover some ways of thinking and concepts that will help shape the approaches and ideas around the later sections, so this means it needs to be followed in order, one Module at a time. You don’t need to do it all in one go, and our advice is to take breaks and spread out your learning.
Understanding your preterm or sick baby now you’re home is designed for all parents and relatives of babies experiencing neonatal care, but you might find perhaps you begin to feel you would benefit from more personalised or specialist support, and so, there are some additional resources signposted throughout to guide you.
We know that there are many different families, with different backgrounds and shapes and sizes. We have tried to consider some of the different needs of families in this course, but it hasn’t been possible to account for all backgrounds. If your personal situation isn’t reflected, we still hope that you find something helpful in the main ideas about developing close, connected relationships between parents and children and welcome your feedback to improve its relevance.