GroBrain is passionate about infant mental health
Foundations for lifelong emotional wellbeing are laid in the period from conception to the age of 3, when the brain is developing at its fastest. We help parents understand the vital part they play in 'wiring up' the connections in their baby's brain, especially the ability to manage stress.
Health professionals and Early Years practitioners use GroBrain in their work with parents, integrating our infant mental health resources into their regular practice. Our tried and tested visual resources make complex neuroscience easy to explain, even when time is short. Insights into brain development can be a strong motivation to make small but significant changes during this critical period.
Health professionals and Early Years practitioners use GroBrain in their work with parents, integrating our infant mental health resources into their regular practice. Our tried and tested visual resources make complex neuroscience easy to explain, even when time is short. Insights into brain development can be a strong motivation to make small but significant changes during this critical period.
This website is for practitioners and anyone working with parents in the Early Years.
If you are a parent, click here for the GroBrain Parent website.
If you are a parent, click here for the GroBrain Parent website.
Learn how to explain brain develop to parents 1:2:1 (Face-to-face training)
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Learn how to explain brain development to parents 1:2:1 (Online training)
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Learn how to facilitate a GroBrain Baby Course (Face-to-face training)
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NEW Learn how to run 9 parenting sessions on infant mental health (prebirth to 3)
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NEW course for toddlers aged 1 - 3 years coming soon!
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Posters, booklets and Parent Packs
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GroBrain in the workplace
Here is a short video of how GroBrain is being used in Swansea with more vulnerable families.
NEW Resource Package for individual practitioners
We are developing an exciting new resource for enterprising individuals (e.g. baby massage, doulas, baby sensory, nurseries) with experience of facilitating parenting groups, equipping you to deliver 9 sessions on infant mental health (prebirth to age 3.) This is a hot topic and could be added to your existing offering to parents. We hope to launch this in the late autumn. Places will be limited. For details
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Contact us at info@grobrain.com
Contact us at info@grobrain.com
1001 Critical Days: Facts and Stats
1. Babies hear at around 24 weeks of pregnancy, recognise familiar voice at birth, and prefer faces to other shapes.
2. In the first years of life, more than 1 million new connections are formed every second in a baby’s growing brain.
3. A range of research shows that the way parents interact with their babies predicts children’s later development.here is a range of research about the importance of parents’ behavioural responses to their children (sensitivity) and the way they think about their babies (capacities such as reflective function, mentalisation and mind-mindedness). Research also shows that the things parents do with their babies (such as how babies are fed, and activities such as reading, talking and singing) can make a difference to early wellbeing and development.
4. Children’s development in the early years sets them on a positive trajectory. Children’s development at just 22 months is linked to their qualifications at 26 years.
5. Family income and education is strongly related to children’s development. Babies in higher income families are more likely to have frequent caregiver-child conversations. By age 3, babies with university educated parents have been found to have vocabularies 2-3 times larger than those whose parents had not completed school.
6. When parents experience problems in the first 1001 days it can have long term impacts on their children. One study showed that children whose mothers were stressed in pregnancy were twice as likely to have mental health problems as teenagers
2. In the first years of life, more than 1 million new connections are formed every second in a baby’s growing brain.
3. A range of research shows that the way parents interact with their babies predicts children’s later development.here is a range of research about the importance of parents’ behavioural responses to their children (sensitivity) and the way they think about their babies (capacities such as reflective function, mentalisation and mind-mindedness). Research also shows that the things parents do with their babies (such as how babies are fed, and activities such as reading, talking and singing) can make a difference to early wellbeing and development.
4. Children’s development in the early years sets them on a positive trajectory. Children’s development at just 22 months is linked to their qualifications at 26 years.
5. Family income and education is strongly related to children’s development. Babies in higher income families are more likely to have frequent caregiver-child conversations. By age 3, babies with university educated parents have been found to have vocabularies 2-3 times larger than those whose parents had not completed school.
6. When parents experience problems in the first 1001 days it can have long term impacts on their children. One study showed that children whose mothers were stressed in pregnancy were twice as likely to have mental health problems as teenagers