💪The easiest good deed you’ll do today! With your help, OXPIP could win £5,000 to reach more families across Oxfordshire with lifechanging support 🩵 Nominating is free and quick. Just enter OXPIP’s Charity Number 1109956 on the form below: movementforgood.com/draws/specia... ⏳Closing soon!

We could receive a £5,000 donation with your help through the Movement for Good Draw.

We could receive a £5,000 donation with your help through the Movement for Good Draw.

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I am very much looking forward to my @oxpip.bsky.social online lecture on #Attachment and #Child #Development: From #Myths to Modern #Neuroscience. 📅 03 October 2025, 13:00-15:00 🎟️ Tickets are still available: tickets.sheepcrm.com/.../67ee7a6a... It would be a great pleasure to see you there.

Her boots are made for walking and that's what they're going to do! Please do consider sponsoring our CEO this weekend

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Good luck Karen! We’ll be rooting* for you Please do support Karen if you can. All money raised is being doubled by a matched funder. (* niche pun for those who know babies 😎)

Dr Karen Bateson@karenjbateson.bsky.social · last yr.

It's nearly time to get my hiking boots on for a massive mountain walk I'm doing to raise money for Oxford Parent-Infant Project . @oxpip.bsky.social does amazing work & every £ raised will be doubled by the Big Give, so please do pledge if you can. Pledge form here: forms.office.com/e/bMjXZcdW3k

It's nearly time to get my hiking boots on for a massive mountain walk I'm doing to raise money for Oxford Parent-Infant Project . @oxpip.bsky.social does amazing work & every £ raised will be doubled by the Big Give, so please do pledge if you can. Pledge form here: forms.office.com/e/bMjXZcdW3k

📣Free webinar 📣 Join us to hear about the free @nspcc.bsky.social Look, Say, Sing, Play resources which support interaction between babies & adults. For everyone who cares for/works with babies, including parents & practitioners. June 10th 1-2pm. Sign up here: app.sheepcrm.com/oxpip/events....

📣Free webinar 📣 Join us to hear about the free @nspcc.bsky.social Look, Say, Sing, Play resources which support interaction between babies & adults. For everyone who cares for/works with babies, including parents & practitioners. June 10th 1-2pm. Sign up here: app.sheepcrm.com/oxpip/events....

This year, I am especially delighted that our Chief Nursing Officer for England has chosen to draw attention to the vital work of health visitors for #IND2025 🌟Duncan was full of praise for their professionalism, dedication & skills👏 Happy International Nurses day from @ihealthvisiting.bsky.social 👇

Institute of Health Visiting@ihealthvisiting.bsky.social · last yr.

On International Nurses Day #IND2025 we are delighted to have Duncan Burton @Duncan_CNO, shine a spotlight on the important role of #HealthVisitors and public health nursing on this very special day in the nursing calendar. ihv.org.uk/news-and-vie... #HealthVisiting #teamCNO

We provide psychotherapy to parents and carers in Oxfordshire who want some help to feel closer and more connected to their new baby. Getting feedback from parents we work with is the best part of our job.

You can now get 10% off our short courses using an early bird discount code: EARLYBIRD25 Browse our courses on Attachment, Assessing Parent-Infant Relationships, Working with intergenerational trauma (ghosts in the nursery), and An Introduction to Watch Wait & Wonder at oxpip.org.uk/training

We have a few places left on our Watch, Wait and Wonder (an introduction) training day on May 2nd (online, £271) Learn about WWW theory and understand how to facilitate parents' capacity to observe, recognise and understand their baby's cues Info/book: app.sheepcrm.com/oxpip/events...

Fantastic research job opportunity here 👇🏻 working with the lovely and brilliant @ruthndwrites.bsky.social jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/rese...

Mental health problems can cast a long shadow over a child's life. But this isn’t inevitable. We’re backing @centreformh.bsky.social advice to the Government so that every child has the best chance of good #MentalHealth buff.ly/dPgjrvp #InvestInChildhood

5 days left before we choose a winner to receive a free copy of Sue’s book. Re-post this item to be in with a chance.

Oxford Parent-Infant Project (OXPIP)@oxpip.bsky.social · last yr.

Today, OXPIP's founder Sue Gerhardt launches her new book "1001 days: How Our First Years Shape our Lifelong Health". We're giving away one free copy chosen at random from the people who retweet one of our social media posts by 8th April. Available to purchase from today.

We’re giving away one free copy of Sue Gerhardt’s new book. Re-tweet the post below to be in with a chance. Winner will be chosen at random on April 8th. Good luck!

Oxford Parent-Infant Project (OXPIP)@oxpip.bsky.social · last yr.

Today, OXPIP's founder Sue Gerhardt launches her new book "1001 days: How Our First Years Shape our Lifelong Health". We're giving away one free copy chosen at random from the people who retweet one of our social media posts by 8th April. Available to purchase from today.

We’re giving away one free copy of Sue Gerhardt’s new book. Re-tweet the post below to be in with a chance. Winner will be chosen at random on April 8th. Good luck!

Oxford Parent-Infant Project (OXPIP)@oxpip.bsky.social · last yr.

Today, OXPIP's founder Sue Gerhardt launches her new book "1001 days: How Our First Years Shape our Lifelong Health". We're giving away one free copy chosen at random from the people who retweet one of our social media posts by 8th April. Available to purchase from today.

We have a few places left on our Watch, Wait and Wonder (an introduction) training day on May 2nd (online, £271) Learn about WWW theory and understand how to facilitate parents' capacity to observe, recognise and understand their baby's cues Info/book: app.sheepcrm.com/oxpip/events...

Another large, longitudinal study, this time the ECHO study, finds that higher scores on measures of early parent-child relationships are linked to better child health & well-being. #TheBig3 risk factors are Poverty/ACEs/PAIRS Study data available on request for secondary analysis bit.ly/4hnZoPq

Early Relational Health: A Foundation for Healthy Development Across the Lifespan

We grow up in the context of our relationships with others. This concept is central to early relational health, the notion that safe, stable, and nurturing relationships (SSNRs) in early childhood bui...

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Babies learn best from those who respond to their babbling! 👶✨ @juliaavenditti.bsky.social, @mikehgoldstein.bsky.social et al. (2025): infants form stronger social expectations when their babbling gets a timely response—even from a robot car! 🤖🚗 #infancypapers #EarlyYears doi.org/10.1111/infa...

Today, OXPIP's founder Sue Gerhardt launches her new book "1001 days: How Our First Years Shape our Lifelong Health". We're giving away one free copy chosen at random from the people who retweet one of our social media posts by 8th April. Available to purchase from today.

So excited to see this launched, amazing work by a great team 🙌 ctmuhb.nhs.wales/news/latest-...

OXPIP supports the British Psychological Society’s call for more investment in parent-infant relationship teams. Parents want vastly better access to advice, support & help if their relationship with their baby has gets derailed. @bpsofficial.bsky.social

New paper confirms that we haven't yet cracked the issue of finding a reliable, valid, frontline, cheap/free, quick and easy way to assess parent-infant relationships which can also be used as a pre and post measure. The search continues! Full paper out soon bit.ly/4il9ulo

Frontiers | Assessing the parent-infant relationship: A two-stage, COSMIN-informed systematic review evaluating clinician-rated measures

Background: The parent-infant relationship is important for healthy infant development. Parent-infant assessments can aid clinicians in identifying any diffi...

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On 26 Feb, Mind in Mind is hosting an event on the Still Face Procedure. This procedure has been crucial for psychologists' understandng of the relational dynamics of trust &distrust. Here is my own video on it, filmed 30 years ago. (Gosh!) @garethkthomas.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJRV...

Disconnection and the Still Face Paradigm

YouTube video by Suzanne Zeedyk

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Our Head of Training Jo Chapman was delighted to meet HRH Prince Edward during his visit to The Branch this week. We very much value our partnership with this amazing hub in Chipping Norton which does so much for integrated support for local communities.

We fully support the @ihealthvisiting.bsky.social call to Rebuild Health Visiting. Children and their families need high-quality, universally available support from conception onwards and a well-resourced health visiting service is an essential part of that. ihv.org.uk/wp-content/u...

Interested in interventions that might reduce perinatal loneliness? Read our scoping review here! We summarise the types of interventions we found in the published research, and identify some common mechanisms that influence social outcomes. #perinatalmentalhealth #loneliness rdcu.be/d8V27

What is the most beautiful sight in the world? To your baby, the answer is YOU. (Thread 🧵)