How you can influence your baby’s mental health and developmentWith Dr Amanda Gummer  amanda@goodplayguide 

Building close relationships and bonding as a new parent reduces the likelihood of mental health difficulties throughout your child’s life. The newborn time is a critical period of social and emotional development and new research highlights many parents are unaware of the link between their baby’s good mental health and early childhood development.I am excited to be joined by this week’s guest, Dr Amanda Gummer who is a child development expert and is working on a new government campaign - Start for Life’s ‘if they could tell you’ – this has launched to support parents to help build secure bonds to help nurture their baby’s future mental health.This brilliant campaign can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/start-for-life-campaign-if-they-could-tell-you

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