Research has determined that couples who have attended the Bringing Baby Home Workshops have experienced benefits in the following areas:

"The greatest gift you can give your child is a strong parenting relationship." ...John Gottman, Ph.D.

Parent-Baby Relations:

• Both fathers and mothers who took the BBH program (compared to those that did not) showed greater sensitivity and responsiveness to their infant’s signals. This was particularly true for fathers.
• Parents who took the BBH program demonstrated better coparenting abilities in that they were able to work together more positively during family play with their 3-month-old baby.
• Babies expressed more smiling and laughter during family play if their parents had participated in the BBH program. This was true for both 3 and 12-month-old infants.
• Several indicators of father-infant attachment security were rated more positively in families who had taken the BBH program.

Infant:

• There were less language delays in one-year-old infants of parents who took the BBH program.
• Mothers who took the BBH program rated their babies as showing less distress in response to limitations (such as having a toy out of reach).
• 1-year-old babies in the workshop group were rated as responding more positively to their fathers’ soothing (this is likely to reflect something about father-baby interaction quality as well as infant temperament).

Father:

• Fathers who took the BBH program reported being more involved in parenting and feeling more satisfied and appreciated for their parental contributions.
• The quality of father-baby interactions was more positive if fathers had taken the BBH program (as reported throughout this table).

Couple Relationship:

• Couples who took the BBH program reported high stable relationship quality. Those who did not take the BBH program showed a decline in relationship quality over the first year after the baby’s birth.
• There was less hostility expressed by both husbands and wives during conflict discussions if they had taken the BBH program.

Parent Psychopathology:

• Fewer mothers who took the BBH program showed symptoms of post-partum depression, the baby blues, and other indicators of psychopathology such as anxiety.
• Fewer fathers who took the BBH program showed signs of depression, anxiety and other psychopathology after the baby was born.

Workshops Held In Conjunctin With The Grace and Growth Counseling Center

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