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Child in Mind 'Bonding with baby' podcast

We've produced a series of expert podcasts to help parents understand and manage child and family mental health problems. 

The series, Child in Mind, is presented by BBC Radio 4 presenter Claudia Hammond. In each 20-minute episode, she discusses an important issue in child and family mental health with an expert and a young person or parent.

In this episode we explore what it means to securely bond with your baby, how this bonding can affect your child's development as well as useful advice for parents to support this bond.

Presenter Claudia Hammond is joined by Dr Linda Mayes, the Arnold Gesell Professor of Child Psychiatry, Pediatrics, and Psychology in the Yale Child Study Center and expectant mum, Rhian Filbey.

Other episodes in the Child in Mind series include discussions regarding childhood anxiety, trauma and treatment and can be accessed here.

To mark the beginning of Infant Mental Health Awareness Week 2017 our latest Child in Mind podcast explores what it means to securely bond with your baby, how this bonding can affect your child's development as well as useful advice for parents to support this bond.

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