Birth - 6 weeks
Birth - 6 weeks
Ensure appropriate care pathways in place for mother and baby when mother unwell mother at birth/soon after.
Health Visiting
If mother physically unwell transfer to ITU,HDU where possible with mother.
Mental health admisisons to Mother and Baby Unit where possible.
Birth - 6 weeks
Ensure appropriate ongoing and consistent care provision.
Health Visiting
In partnership with SW/HV team and family Assess who will care for baby and support family and transfer as required to:
- NICU
- Post Natal Ward
- Home with relative
- Paediatric Ward
Birth - 6 weeks
Ensure appropriate ongoing and consistent care provision.
Health Visiting
Birth - 6 weeks
Ensure appropriate ongoing and consistent care provision.
Health Visiting
Discharge home notification to GP and HV.
Prior to 28 days midwife to visit , post 28 days referral to relevant community professionals.
3 - 8 weeks
Additional Visit following New Birth Visit and any Follow-up Visiting schedule.
In cases where there are identified concerns regarding parental bonding and attachment, parental emotional availability and inappropriate parental expectations.
Health Visiting
Targeted support to:
- Assess the need for additional parental support
- Encourage the building of parental resilience through family support.
- Promote fathers / family involvement
- Manage parental mood concerns through action planning in partnership with parent/s.
- Promote access to counselling services
- Deliver infant massage - undertaken at home, one to one.
- Encourage use of media tools e.g. social baby to promote sensitive, attuned parenting on an individual basis.
Liaison, information sharing and communication with GP and/or other appropriate professionals and services.
Promotion and facilitation of social integration by signposting to Postnatal Health Promotion Group and Children’s Centre groups.
0 - 6 weeks
Core Purpose 2
Outreach home visiting family support.
Health Visiting
Needs led service and encompasses issues such:
- Promoting positive bonding -use of tools such as Brazelton NBO
- Targeted one:one infant massage – home based
- Support to access appropriate groups/specialist groups
- Liaison with other agencies and communicate effectively and share information
Referrals where additional needs are presented for parenting support.