How to look after your baby's mental well being from day one
Babies may not be able to tell us how they are feeling, but that doesn’t mean the range of emotions they feel is any less varied than adults. “Babies have the capacity to experience peaks of joy, excitement, and elation,” Clair Rees, executive director of the charity Parent Infant Partnership (PIP) told HuffPost UK.#newmom #baby “They also feel fear, grief, sadness, hopelessness, and anger - emotions that many adults understandably find it hard to believe, or accept, that very young children can experience. “But babies have an emotional world, which develops in the context of their earliest relationships starting in the earliest months of life, well before they can use words to express themselves. “Mental health begins in early childhood, which opens a window of opportunity for laying good foundations of the mind for children.” That is why PIP joined forces with many parenting and children’s organizations, (including Public Health England and the Royal C...