Perinatal Mental Health Support - Caring For Families

For many individuals, becoming a parent is the most significant life-changing event they will ever experience. Many adjustments have to be made to successfully navigate the transition to parenthood. This life experience requires complex adjustments and adaptations to the many changes that take place when having a baby.

Caring for Families provides Perinatal Support and Child development services to parents, infants, couples, and families. We aim to provide services that acknowledge the complex adjustments and adaptations to the many changes that take place when having a baby.

The Perinatal Support Services encompass the antenatal and postnatal periods and covers areas of child development until the infant has reached the age of 5 years. These are the perinatal supports that are provided for:

Low mood or excessive worry during pregnancy (antenatal depression) and after childbirth (postnatal depression)
Re-emergence of past experiences following complicated birth
Couple relationship issues
Issues in the parent-infant relationship (e.g. bonding issues, intense worry about the baby’s well-being)
Difficult behaviours or emotional distress in older siblings
Broader family issues (e.g. difficulties in relationships with own parents or in-laws)
Perinatal grief and loss: Miscarriage, stillbirth, and loss of baby
Helping parents to develop skills for sleep routines and self-settling for infants
Monitoring your child’s growth and development
Establishing healthy routines
Mindfulness and Meditation
Infant feeding and nutrition