Who is this Antenatal Attachment Training for?
Individuals
Family Hubs, NHS Teams and Other Organisations
Professionals
Perfect for individuals looking to:
- Extend your service offering into pregnancy
- Build relationships with parents earlier
- Create a natural pathway into postnatal classes
- Increase repeat bookings and long-term engagement
- Differentiate your classes and professional services
- Support emotional wellbeing, bonding and communication from pregnancy onwards
Professionals
Family Hubs, NHS Teams and Other Organisations
Professionals
Suitable for midwives, Family Hub teams, doulas, early years practitioners, infant feeding teams, perinatal practitioners looking to support:
- Attachment & Bonding across the full 1001 Days
- Parent–baby attachment during pregnancy
- Emotional wellbeing and relaxation
- Early communication and interaction
- Positive transitions into parenthood
- Family engagement and confidence
- Relationship-centred antenatal support
Family Hubs, NHS Teams and Other Organisations
Family Hubs, NHS Teams and Other Organisations
Family Hubs, NHS Teams and Other Organisations
Perfect for organisations looking to:
- Strengthen parent–infant relationships from pregnancy onwards
- Support First 1001 Days and Start for Life priorities
- Enhance Family Hub and maternity service provision
- Improve perinatal mental health and emotional wellbeing support
- Create joined-up pathways from pregnancy to age two
- Increase family engagement before birth
- Deliver evidence-informed early intervention programmes
The Benefits of Pregnancy Bonding
Build Parent-Baby Connection Before Birth
Support Early Communication and Learning Foundations
Build Parent-Baby Connection Before Birth
Pregnancy bonding helps parents begin building a loving relationship with their baby long before birth. Through gentle touch, talking, movement and interaction, parents learn to recognise and respond to their baby’s movements and cues, helping to strengthen emotional connection and attachment during pregnancy.
Support Baby’s Early Brain Development
Support Early Communication and Learning Foundations
Build Parent-Baby Connection Before Birth
During pregnancy, babies are already developing their senses and beginning to respond to sound, movement and touch. Positive pregnancy bonding experiences help stimulate early sensory pathways and provide meaningful experiences that support neurological and emotional development during this important stage of growth.
Support the Developing Maternal Brain
Support Early Communication and Learning Foundations
Support Early Communication and Learning Foundations
During pregnancy the brain naturally adapts specifically for motherhood. Areas linked to nurturing, emotional connection, responsiveness and protection begin to strengthen and reorganise, helping to develop maternal instinct. Pregnancy bonding activities such as touch, talking and mindful interaction with baby help support these developing pathways.
Support Early Communication and Learning Foundations
Support Early Communication and Learning Foundations
Support Early Communication and Learning Foundations
Talking, singing, reading and responsive interaction during pregnancy help lay important foundations for early communication and learning. Repeated exposure to familiar voices, sounds and rhythms may help support bonding, interaction and communication development during the early months after birth.
Build Parent Confidence Before Baby Arrives
Build Positive Relationships with Professionals Before Baby Arrives
Encourage Calm, Relaxation and Emotional Wellbeing
Many parents worry about knowing how to connect, communicate and interact with their baby. Pregnancy bonding helps parents feel more confident and comfortable engaging with their baby before birth, helping to build positive early parenting experiences and responsive caregiving skills.
Encourage Calm, Relaxation and Emotional Wellbeing
Build Positive Relationships with Professionals Before Baby Arrives
Encourage Calm, Relaxation and Emotional Wellbeing
Pregnancy bonding activities provide valuable moments of calm, relaxation and mindfulness during pregnancy. Taking time to slow down, connect and focus on your baby can help parents feel more emotionally prepared, supported and confident as they move towards birth and parenthood.
Build Positive Relationships with Professionals Before Baby Arrives
Build Positive Relationships with Professionals Before Baby Arrives
Build Positive Relationships with Professionals Before Baby Arrives
Pregnancy bonding sessions create valuable opportunities for parents to build trusted, supportive relationships with professionals during pregnancy. By engaging with families during pregnancy about attachment, professional, establish stronger connections with families before baby is born.
Encourage Positive Health and Parenting Choices
Build Positive Relationships with Professionals Before Baby Arrives
Build Positive Relationships with Professionals Before Baby Arrives
As parents build a stronger emotional connection with their baby, they may feel more motivated and engaged in positive behaviours such as healthy lifestyles, reducing alcohol or smoking, preparing for breastfeeding, attending appointments and creating nurturing routines that support both parent and baby wellbeing.
Why Pregnancy Bonding Matters
Pregnancy Bonding works alongside Baby Massage and Baby Yoga to create a joined-up early years pathway supporting families throughout the full 1001 days journey — from pregnancy through to toddlerhood.
Rather than being three completely separate programmes, each discipline builds upon the same core principles of nurturing touch, responsive interaction, communication, movement, emotional connection and relationship-centred support.
Families are introduced to early bonding and communication techniques during pregnancy through Pregnancy Bonding, before progressing naturally into Baby Massage after birth and later into Baby Yoga as babies become more active and developmentally ready for movement-based interaction.
This creates continuity for both families and practitioners, with many of the same touch, voice, relaxation and engagement techniques developing and evolving across each stage of the journey.
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Everything needed To Support Pregnancy Bonding is provided
To help you feel fully prepared for delivery of your pregnancy bonding classes, the course also incl
- Comprehensive Pregnancy Bonding Programme Manual
- Pregnancy Bonding Class Companion
- Detailed session plans and delivery guidance
- Parent handouts and supporting resources
- Pregnancy Bonding Dragons Storybook resources
- Pregnancy demonstration bump for modelling class activities
- Pregnancy Bonding Torch for light play activities
- Relaxation, mindfulness and wellbeing resources
- Marketing toolkit including posters, flyers and promotional materials
- Ongoing support and resources to help you confidently begin delivery
Whether you are looking to introduce pregnancy bonding support within a Family Hub, maternity service, early years setting or community organisation, or establish your own independent classes and workshops, our training is designed to provide the knowledge, practical skills and resources needed to deliver high-quality pregnancy bonding support with confidence.
The Dragons Pregnancy Bonding Storybooks
Read Aloud Storybooks Designed for Pregnancy
As part of the programme, we have also developed our Dragons Pregnancy Bonding Storybooks and resources to encourage playful interaction, storytelling, touch and communication during pregnancy.
These stories are designed to help parents, siblings and families interact with the bump through simple “Touch, Tap and Talk” activities woven naturally throughout the story experience.
The books encourage:
- Reading and talking to baby during pregnancy
- Gentle touch interaction with the bump
- Familiar voice recognition
- Sibling involvement and family bonding
- Calm shared moments of connection
- Early communication and relationship-building
Families can continue using the same stories and interaction techniques after birth, helping create familiarity, comfort and continuity between pregnancy and early infancy.