An introduction to 'Understanding Your Baby'

Parents and health professionals talk about how you can get to know your baby, and how you can help her learn and develop.

This is one of over 300 films in our Baby Buddy app and one of twelve films in the “Understanding Your Baby” series designed to support parents to understand their vital role as “Brain Builders” and to help them tune into their baby’s non-verbal cues and support bonding. The “Understanding Your Baby” films were created by Best Beginnings thanks to funding from Leeds CCG and with the support of clinical expertise provided by Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust.

Baby Buddy is an evidence-based and NHS approved pregnancy and parenting app that Best Beginnings created to help all children have the best start in life and reduce inequalities in child health. Baby Buddy were developed in co-creation with parents and professionals to empower and inform parents of all backgrounds to have the knowledge and confidence to look after their own mental and physical health and maximise their baby’s physical, emotional and language development.

As well as over 300 films, Baby Buddy provides daily information through pregnancy until and until your baby is six months old. It also includes hundreds of FAQs and a number of interactive features.

It includes a number of interactive features including an editable “digital best friend”, a goal setting feature and 24/7 access to the Baby Buddy Crisis Text Messenger if you are in emotional distress.

For the rest of the world, Baby Buddy is available as a web-app providing the daily information, the films and the FAQs but not the interactive features.

Baby Buddy is endorsed by:
The Royal College of General Practitioners
The Royal College of Midwives
The Royal College of Obstetricians
The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
The Royal College of Psychiatrists
The Royal College of Speech and Language Therapy
Community Practitioners and Health Visitors Association
British Society of Paediatric Dentistry