•This Little Adventure•

About

This Little Adventure offers an individualized approach toward new parent and grandparent support, driven by the needs of each family and provided by maternal and infant healthcare experts.

Research demonstrates that preparation and planning for the birth of a new family reduces overall parental stress and anxiety. The notion that practice makes permanent holds true for infant education as parenting is not simply the act completing a series of perfunctory tasks each day, it is the ability to grow and learn from every interaction that occurs between parent and child.

Effect of Increased Prenatal Support

  1. Increase in parental readiness for the newborn stage
  2. Parents able to identify when support is needed
  3. Parents aware of who to reach out to when concerns arise after delivery
  4. Greater parental autonomy
  5. Increased parental communication
  6. Decreased parental distress

Impact of Increased Postpartum

Support

  1. Parents report greater confidence in parenting skills
  2. Greater satisfaction with breastfeeding and breastfeeding success
  3. Reported decrease in maternal distress after delivery
  4. Improvement in parent/infant bonding
  5. Increased parental communication
  6. Development of effective grandparent communication
  7. Increased preparedness and readiness for return to paid work