You and your premature baby

Solihull Courses for understanding your pre-term or sick baby

These courses are designed to support parents (and grandparents, friends and family) of babies receiving neonatal care. The course is created by the Solihull Approach in partnership with clinical specialists, healthcare professionals and parents. The courses promote close and connected parent-infant relationships building on a trusted model of containment and reciprocity. It also provides supportive guidance around baby development milestones relating to feeding, sleeping and crying.

Set up an account and then you can enter the access code: WOLSEY. Your account will remember your access to that course and resumes where you left off.

Solihull: Understanding your pre-term or sick baby in hospital

The course will help with:

• your understanding of where you are and what has happened
• understanding your feelings in hospital
• your safety bubble
• understanding your baby in hospital
• preparing for discharge home

Solihull: Understanding your pre-term or sick baby now you're home

This course will help with:

• settling in at home (after discharge)
• understanding your baby's brain
• understanding your baby's crying
• how to respond to crying
• understanding your baby's rhythms
• developing healthy sleep patterns
• understanding your baby's feeding
• understanding your baby's development and play
• understanding your baby's childcare

Useful websites

Special Care: ill or premature babies (NHS)

Bliss: for babies born premature or sick

Bliss: information about parents' mental health

Your newborn baby (NHS)

Early Days - your baby after the birth (NHS)