• Experience, regulate and express emotions
• Form close interpersonal relationships with peers and adults
• Explore the environment and learn                                                    (https://childhood-matters.ie/infant-mental-health/)

Listen to parents talk about bonding with their babies before birth:

The story below is all about your baby while it is growing while you are waiting to meet each other.

Watch the following video of comedian Michael Jr. with his baby. It shows how even minutes after being born, your baby recognises and responds to a parents voice.

Other useful resources on infant mental health

HSE – Baby and Child Mental Wellbeing, https://www2.hse.ie/babies-children/parenting-advice/baby-and-child-mental-wellbeing/

Zero to Three, https://www.zerotothree.org/about/

Irish Association for Infant Mental Health, https://iaimh.ie/