Our well-being video is coming to social media next week! Are you pregnant or caring for a baby? Or do you support parents of babies? If so, we made a resource with parents and practitioners that will help you to support parent well-being in those first years! #first1001days

IT’S HERE! PART ONE of the video animation made to support parents emotional and mental well-being in the baby early years! #coproduction #perinatalwellbeing #peoplespostcodelottery #closeknitfamilies #connection #nurture #infantmentalhealth #first1001days #shapingus

IT’S HERE! PART TWO of the video animation made to support parents emotional and mental well-being in the baby early years! #coproduction #perinatalwellbeing #peoplespostcodelottery #closeknitfamilies #connection #nurture #infantmentalhealth #first1001days #shapingus

Fantastic night last night we raised £847.00 from our pitch 🎉 Many thanks to @theteessidecharity & to the voters for your support! 🙌.This funding means Teesside families will benefit from our upcoming Baby Connections project (deets to come 👀) #infantmentalhealth #shapingus

Loving the launch of ‘The Maternal Mental Health Experiences of Young Mums’ report with Maternal Mental Health Alliance Children & Young People's Mental Health Coalition Lots to learn from young mums and this research #YoungMumsMH

Our FREE Baby Connections workshops for parents to be and parents of babies kick off next week in Redcar & Cleveland for Baby Week 👶🏽 E-mail [email protected] to book a place 🫶👶🏽🧠#BabyWeek #redcarandclevelandbabyweek #closeknitfamilies

Enjoying listening to Christian Guy Director for The Royal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood The Royal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood at ‘Sharing the Science of Early Childhood: Who Knows Best?’ We will certainly be in touch with our ideas! #ShapingUs #ABetterStart

Loving hearing about the power of co-production from Hannah Clark Better Start ‘If you're not going to get their views and what they want to see it's not going to go anywhere’ at ‘Sharing the Science of Early Childhood: Who Knows, and that’s why we co-produced our videos too!

Fantastic First 1001 Days webinar this lunchtime hearing all about 'Building Babies Brains' Action for Children & the START Programme' lots of good work happening to benefit babies and families #passiton

2023 has overall been a great year for us 👶🏽🧠📢, like every start-up (and especially VCSE start-up) we have had our highs and lows🎢 , check out our blog to read about what we have been up to ⬇️ close-knit.org.uk/post/what-clos… A special THANK YOU to all our supporters this year🎉

This January 31st Close-Knit’s Beth Munby will be speaking at Tees Valley Early Years Conference: Physical Development, Health and Well-Being. To book your place head to our taplink or click on link on stories 31st January 2024 4-7.30pm £20 per delegate #earlyyearsconference

We had a great time last week delivering a session at #TeesValleySport #EYConf2024 on the importance of nurture, bonding and brain development in the 1st 1001 day with some fab practitioners. 🎉👶🏽🧠🫶 #closeknitfamilies #nurture #infantmentalhealth #first1001days #teesside

We won’t be perfect parents’! I love that we can repair and reconnect with our little ones when we make mistakes, which we will! 🧠👶🏼❤️ #closeknitfamilies #connection #nurture #infantmentalhealth #first1001days #teesside #middlesbrough #redcar #stockton #babybraindevelopmentvid

Have you heard of the word ‘matrescence’? 🤨❓ With it being International Women’s Day and Mothers Day at the weekend, Close-Knit’s Beth Munby is sharing a little bit about how women’s brains are developing and changing as they become Mothers! 🧠🤰 #InternationalWomensDay2024

We fully support a national ACES strategy as recommended in the latest All-Party Parliamentary Group report on Adverse Childhood Experiences: Roads to Recovery. At Close-Knit we strengthen early intervention and prevention and offer support for families in the first 1001 days

Many thanks to the Hub at Hutton Rudby for raising over £155.00 for Close-Knit CIC at their Charity Sunday in March.🥳 These funds will help us to continue making a difference to parents and their babies Teesside👶♥️

To kick of  Maternal Mental Health Week, Close-Knit’s Beth Munby is sharing some small things you can do to take care of you in the busyness of parenting life! To find out more check out our video made to support parents well-being in the baby years! #MMHAW

This week is Infant Mental Health Awareness Week and the theme is ‘Speak up for babies’ Head over to parentinfantfoundation.co.uk to see how you can get involved! #infantmentalhealthawarenessweek2024   #babyaware  #closeknitfamilies #connection #infantmentalhealth #first1001days

Our learning from the #ABSevent24, how can we implement more of the following? 🌟 Involving parents in strategy 🌟 Thinking about how we communicate with parents -language and visuals 🌟 Creating a relational and partnership model in our work with families and with other services

We are pleased to announce that we have partnered with South Tees Best Start Partnership to share our Baby Connections video animation with new parents across South Tees! Helping parents to understand how their relationship with their baby helps their baby’s development 👶🏽🧠