The Healthy Baby Course
Welcome to the Healthy Baby Course — Extra Resources Hub
This space is designed to support you between sessions. Here you’ll find the weekly slides, The Healthy Baby Course Guide and carefully chosen extra resources, so you can revisit anything we discussed, reflect at your own pace, or share with partners and family members.
Week 1: Baby Development – Laying the Foundations
This week focuses on understanding your baby’s developing brain. We explored how babies grow, and learn from the very start, and why development is anything but linear. The resources here are designed to help you build connections with your baby and understand how give you baby the best start.
Week 2: Responsive Parenting and Play
When play is led by your baby and supported by a responsive adult, it becomes a powerful way for the brain to grow, supporting emotional regulation, communication, and secure attachment. There’s no need for perfection or structured activities; simple, everyday interactions like talking, singing, cuddling, and sharing moments of joy are more than enough to build strong foundations for learning and connection.
Week 3: Baby Sleep
This week on sleep focuses on understanding baby sleep through a biological and developmental lens, rather than routines or expectations. Baby sleep is shaped by brain development, feeding needs, and a still-maturing circadian rhythm, which is why waking is normal and protective in the early months.
Week 4: Weaning
This week focuses on introducing solids in a calm, responsive, and evidence-based way that supports both nutrition and development. Weaning is about much more than food intake; it’s an opportunity for babies to explore tastes, textures, and skills at their own pace while building a positive relationship with food. We’ll cover readiness for solids, responsive feeding, food safety, and how to support self-feeding with confidence, without pressure, perfection, or comparison.
Week 5: First Aid
In this final week, we focus on building confidence in managing common accidents and emergencies in babies and young children. First aid knowledge isn’t about expecting the worst—it’s about feeling prepared, calm, and capable if something does happen. We’ll cover essential life-saving skills alongside practical guidance for everyday incidents, helping reduce fear and increase confidence.