Sherrian Price Newcastle Baby Settling Consultant

22/11/2025

Happy Sunday dads!!

22/11/2025

Perinatal mental health is so important for both mums and dads - I support Perinatal Mental Health Week 2025

31/10/2025

A great resource for grandparents

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

24/09/2025

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