Brazelton Centre UK

19/06/2026

This weekend is Father's Day - how can we truly value and involve dads from the very start? ❤

Our Newborn Behavioural Observations (NBO) training does exactly this.

In this video, David Mullings, a Fathers Inclusion Manager in Londo...

18/06/2026

📣 Catch up on all the daily talks from here: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrPsB99HeVe7xb6KqzyDPrrJJbC41i3Q0

Baby Communication Week 2026 was celebrated during the first week of June. This year's theme, "Seeing the Baby", explored what it truly means to see babies and how we can move beyond some of the challenges and barriers that can make it difficult to see the baby in front of us.

Through daily conversations and new resources, we learnt to notice and respond to each baby's unique cues, strengths and personality, keeping the baby at the heart of everything we do. 🩵

17/06/2026

17/06/2026

👶 Do you work with expectant or new parents?

Our resources can help you support families in understanding their baby's communication cues, building early relationships, and growing confidence in their parenting journey.

📚 Visit the resources section of our website, where you'll find a wide range of materials to support your work. Many are free to download and can be printed, emailed, or shared via patient information platforms such as Padlet, while others can be ordered as hard copies—all designed to be easily shared with the families you support.

👉Visit www.brazelton.co.uk/resources

14/06/2026

📢 Come and join over 300 professionals who have already signed up for our second Inform & Inspire session of 2026! (Our free online event series for professionals working with babies and families.)

🌿 Self-Awareness, Self-Care, and Relational Practice with Babies and Families 🌿
📅 Online | Free event

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This session focuses on self-awareness and relationship-based work with infants, exploring how we understand and regulate our own thoughts, feelings, and responses while working with families in our care.

We’ll consider how practitioners can notice, make sense of, and manage their own internal responses—while remaining emotionally present, responsive, and attuned to babies and their families.

This is explored through the lens of the Newborn Behavioural Observations approach, bringing practice and reflection closely together.

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Working in this field is deeply meaningful, and also emotionally and mentally demanding. Every interaction involves not only the baby’s cues and the parents’ experiences, but also our own thoughts, feelings, and responses. This session creates space to reflect on that dynamic and strengthen practice through awareness, presence, and regulation.

🔑 Key themes include:
- Self-awareness before, during, and after practice with families
- Recognising emotional responses, stress, and bias
- Practical self-regulation strategies to support attunement and decision-making
- Supporting “moments of meeting” between parents and babies
- Using reflection to sustain compassionate, relational care

We are delighted to welcome Dr Emily Lyman and Dr Jayne Singer from the Brazelton Touchpoints Center experienced Brazelton trainers who will lead this reflective and practical session.

👩‍⚕️ 👶 For professionals in infant mental health, midwifery, health visiting, neonatal care, perinatal mental health, and paediatrics.

👉 Register and find out more: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/self-awareness-self-care-and-relational-practice-with-babies-and-families-tickets-1988306542392

12/06/2026

✨ What a fantastic week supporting and celebrating !

A huge thank you to The Association for Infant Mental Health - AiMH UK and the Parent-Infant Foundation for championing another thoughtful and important theme: Attunement.

We were delighted that our senior trainer, Anulika Ifezue, was invited to speak at Wednesday's conference, sharing "Getting to Know Your Baby: Supporting Parent-Baby Connection with the Brazelton Approach." It was a wonderful opportunity to explore how understanding and responding to babies' unique cues can help strengthen early relationships.

Throughout the week, we've been sharing resources to help bring the theme of attunement to life. If you missed them, you can catch up here:

✨ Attunement in Action – a free downloadable poster exploring what creates moments of attunement from the perspectives of babies, parents and practitioners.
👉 Download here:https://www.brazelton.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Attunement-in-Action.pdf

✨ Steps to Supporting Attunement – a free downloadable poster illustrating attunement as an ongoing process of connection and understanding between parent and baby.
👉 Download here:https://www.brazelton.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Steps-to-support-attunement.pdf

✨ Attunement the Brazelton Way: Seeing and Responding to the ‘Real’ Baby, Imperfectly – an inspiring short article from one of our trainers, exploring how attunement isn't about getting it right all the time, but about noticing, responding and reconnecting.
👉 Read the article: https://www.brazelton.co.uk/insights-from-our-trainers-attunement-the-brazelton-way/

Thank you to everyone who has engaged with, shared and championed the importance of infant mental health this week. Together, we're helping to build stronger connections between babies, parents and the people who support them. 💜

12/06/2026

It has been fantastic to welcome Stoke Thrive at Five Health Visitors and Midwives onto their NBO training this week!

What a wonderful comment from the Development lead Nina Gilbert: "For families, this is about much more than introducing a new tool. It is about creating opportunities for parents to feel seen, supported and confident in their relationship with their baby during one of the most significant transitions in life.”

These words beautifully capture the heart of NBO and the impact it can have on families.

Wishing all of the trainees every success as they work towards their certification. Remember, we're always here to support you along the way, particularly through our free monthly support and reflective practice sessions.

We look forward to seeing your NBO skills grow and hearing about the positive difference you make for babies and families. 💜

11/06/2026

"Approaches like the Brazelton NBAS and NBO help us slow down and observe our little ones. And when we slow down and observe we can simply describe what they are communicating, ‘noticing out loud’ their cues and behaviours. In this way we might more easily think about their own internal state, and attempt our best guess at an attuned response to the behaviours and cues we can see, rather than to our own worries or assumptions."

👉Read the article here: https://www.brazelton.co.uk/insights-from-our-trainers-attunement-the-brazelton-way/

A big thank you to our senior trainer, Dr Melanie Gunning, for writing this beautiful piece in celebration of Infant Mental Health Awareness Week this week.

"Attunement the Brazelton Way: Seeing and Responding to the ‘Real’ Baby, Imperfectly"

09/06/2026

📢 We are delighted to share the second of two resources we've created for , exploring this year's theme of attunement. ❤️

This poster captures attunement as an ongoing process of connection between parent and baby. From the very beginning, babies are active participants in relationships, reaching out through their cues, expressions and behaviours in search of connection and understanding.

Attunement begins with knowing and believing that babies communicate meaningfully. When parents can see and respond to those communication cues, they begin a journey of discovery, learning about their baby and the unique person they are becoming. ✨

Attunement isn't about getting it right all the time or striving for perfection. It's about curiosity, connection, repair, and continually learning about one another. ❤️

📥 Download the poster here:https://www.brazelton.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Steps-to-support-attunement.pdf

08/06/2026

👶💛 What is happening in those special moments of attunement between babies and their caregivers?

To celebrate , we've created a new resource, Attunement in Action, exploring what creates moments of attunement from the perspectives of babies, parents, and practitioners.✨

📥Download for free here:https://www.brazelton.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Attunement-in-Action.pdf