Sherrian Price Newcastle Baby Settling Consultant

12/10/2025

It can be normal for dad and partners to feel the process of bonding with their new baby more challenging.

Attachment and bonding with your baby comes with lots of playing, communicating and interacting with your baby. This relationship can start even before baby is born so that after birth your baby will recognise your voice and be calmed by knowing it.

There is so many more ways that dad or a partner can bond with baby other than feeding.

🛁 Bath time
👶 Nappy changes
✋ Baby massage
🎤 Singing and talking to your baby
📖 Reading
🥰 Babywearing
🧸 Playing with toys
🤩 Skin to skin
🏡 Walk in the pram

Feeding isn't the only way to bond with your baby. It can be hard to know how to help when baby is feeding lots but all these seemingly little things are really important for your baby's brain development as well as helping you both bond.

Any of these things can then support your partner to have a shower or a short nap or grab something to eat.

Click on these links below for more dad information and support.

https://dadmatters.org.uk/portfolio.../attachment-bonding/

https://www.fathersnetwork.org.uk/

30/09/2025

20/09/2025

It can be normal for partners to feel the process of bonding with their new baby more challenging.
Attachment and bonding with your baby comes with lots of playing, communicating and interacting with your baby. This relationship can start even before baby is born so that after birth your baby will recognise your voice and be calmed by knowing it.

There is so many more ways that dad can bond with baby other than feeding.

🛁 Bath time
👶 Nappy changes
✋ Baby massage
🎤 Singing and talking to your baby
📖 Reading
🥰 Babywearing
🧸 Playing with toys
🤩 Skin to skin
🏡 Walk in the pram

Feeding isn't the only way to bond with your baby. It can be hard to know how to help when baby is feeding lots but all these seemingly little things are really important for your baby's brain development as well as helping you both bond.

Any of these things can then support your partner to have a shower or a short nap or grab something to eat.

Click on these links below for more dad information and support.

https://dadmatters.org.uk/portfolio-items/attachment-bonding/

https://www.fathersnetwork.org.uk/

04/09/2025

Happy Fathers Day for Sunday!! I just admire dads ability to bring humour to every situation lol 😜

01/09/2025

01/09/2025

Dads Group and Manwith Apram deserve appreciation for improving access and promoting involvement of new dads in perinatal services… and thereby benefiting babies and new mums!! Dads Group

30/08/2025

For a newborn baby everything they experience is new for them.

Your consistent and reliable caring responsiveness whether it be, protecting sleep, attending to a cry, engaging in interaction etc. give a constancy to anchor on in a wide sea of daily experiences.

Your baby’s expectations being met allow them to develop a sense of trust in you and the world and in turn a core sense of self.

(words & Image from Brazelton Centre UK)

24/08/2025

Responding to a baby’s cries or cues isn’t about creating dependence. It’s about building connection and emotional security.

Responsive caregiving supports healthy brain development and helps babies feel safe, seen, and loved.

Learn more about the science behind early attachment and get tips to support a baby's emotional growth: https://bit.ly/4fdW3Tz

24/08/2025

24/08/2025

One million neural connections every second happens in a baby’s brain during the first three years.

This is the main event. The way we show up with emotionally nourishing, supportive relationships shapes lifelong health and well-being.

Let’s treat it like it matters. Because it does.

27/04/2025

Such a great conversation and evidence based ideas about parenting boys … love it!! So so true!

So much of the conversation around the Netflix series Adolescence left parents—especially those raising boys—feeling afraid. Afraid of what boys could become. Afraid of getting it wrong.

But that’s not the full story.

As a mum of four boys and a parent educator, I see something else every day: boys who are soft, emotional, deeply loving and wired for connection.

That’s why I wrote this blog—Raising Boys with Big Hearts—to remind us what’s real beneath the myths.

Let’s talk about what our boys actually need to thrive. Not fear. Not shame. But compassion, connection, and a chance to be their whole selves.

💛 Link in bio to read the full post.

27/03/2025

Newcastle and Lake Macquarie residents are advised to watch for signs and symptoms following a measles alert from the local health district.