Program Description: This is a 3-session workshop for expectant & new parents with children under the age of three years old. The live, virtual sessions will cover the evidence-based program developed by The Gottman Institute that supports parents in keeping their friendship strong as they navigate their transition to or in parenthood. This program is intended for parents to participate together, as the focus of the workshop is to strengthen the parent-parent relationship.
The goal of Bringing Baby Home is to equip you with the knowledge & skill sets needed to constructively cope with the various changes that typically occur during the first three years after your baby is born.
Despite the excitement of welcoming a new baby, research shows that within three years after the birth of a child, approximately two-thirds of parents experience a significant drop in their relationship quality and will have a dramatic increase in conflict & hostility. Years of research show that a couple's emotional connection is the real foundation for a baby's development. Both hostile parent-parent relationships & withdrawn or intrusive parent-child relationships hold lasting effects on a child's emotional, social & cognitive development.
Bringing Baby Home provides a research-based, research-tested program to help new parents equip themselves with the knowledge & skills needed to cope constructively with the changes that come with the birth of a child.
In the Bringing Baby Home workshop, you and your partner will learn how to do the following:
- Strengthen your friendship
- Increase intimacy and affection
- Work through conflict with greater ease
- Maintain relationship satisfaction
- Reduce hostility
- Create positive parent-child interactions
- Ensure quality involvement for both parents
- Reduce the incidence or severity of postpartum mood disorders