The Solihull Approach is an evidence based and developed in the UK. It is about improving emotional health and wellbeing through relationships from the antenatal period through childhood into adulthood. Whether you work in the community, in a hospital or an acute setting your involvement with a pregnant woman and her family in the antenatal and postnatal period can have a significant impact on how the parent feels about the pregnancy, labour, birth and the first few months with their baby. These early experiences are crucial in building healthy long term relationships.
The Solihull Approach is featured in the DoH Healthy Child Programme, NICE website and is also featured as an example of good practice in the West Midland’s Maternity and Newborn Care Pathway report 2010. The Solihull Approach supports recommendations outlined in Preparing for birth and beyond
The Solihull Approach has developed a range of resources, groups for parents and training for professionals working in the antenatal period through to parenthood (birth to 18 years). The approach is an integrated model and theoretical framework for thinking about your work with women and their families.
The Solihull Approach foundation trainings introduce professionals to the Solihull Approach and how it can be used in their one to one practice with mothers, fathers, partners and families to support their emotional health and wellbeing. The training supports midwives with the early identification of issues around mental health and well-being, which if left unsupported may develop into more serious perinatal mental health difficulties. The Solihull Approach Foundation trainings also provide professionals with an understanding of the Solihull Approach model that can also be applied to group work, if professionals go on to deliver any of the Solihull Approach groups for parents. In the antenatal period the Solihull Approach have designed an Antenatal Parenting Group ‘Understanding pregnancy, labour, birth and your baby’ that weaves together information that mothers, fathers, and partners want to know about pregnancy and birth along with preparation for developing a relationship with the baby in the womb, during the birth and after the baby is born.
The Solihull Approach has created a range of trainings that professionals working with families in the antenatal and postnatal period have found interesting and useful in their work.
These include:
The Solihull Approach has also developed trainings for the postnatal period that include:
The resource pack contains a range of information on the following topics:
Building relationships and exploring issues about parenthood, Working with parents who have had aided conception, Pregnancy after a previous history of miscarriage or stillbirth, Using the Solihull Approach to work with bereaved families, Fathers’ emotional responses to pregnancy, Pregnancy, labour and the birth experience, When something goes wrong during pregnancy, If the baby is premature, ill or disabled, The social baby, When the baby becomes real, Antenatal and postnatal depression, Fathers and their newborn babies, Working with parents with history of mental health, disability or physical ill health, Separation, Teenagers, Multiple births, Higher risk: older mums, genetic conditions, drugs and alcohol abuse, When a baby is unplanned or unwanted, Feeding, Domestic violence: working with families
The Solihull Approach has developed groups for parents that include:
We have designed a selection of resources to support the delivery of the Antenatal Parenting group
We have put together an Antenatal Resource Bag to support delivery of the Solihull Approach Antenatal group, so that you have everything in one place in a robust bag for either storage or transporting around.
The Resource Bag contains:
If you already have some of the resources you can purchase the following items separately:
This Display Chart Set (A3 Laminated) has 5 drawings showing the Stages of Labour. The Charts support the delivery of the Solihull Approach Antenatal Group ‘Understanding your pregnancy, labour, birth and your baby’.
These 10 illustrations (A4 Laminated) in a spiral binder show common positions used in Labour and Birth. These illustrations support the delivery of the Solihull Approach Antenatal group ‘Understanding your pregnancy, labour, birth and your baby’.
We also have 3 original Antenatal Resource Bags on Sale (the contents differs from the NEW Antenatal Resource Bag) with a significant discount on sale for £345 each (includes p&p).
The Antenatal online course for parents is a 9 module course for mothers, fathers, partners, birth partners or grandparents with information about the pregnancy and birth and preparation for making a relationship with the baby in the womb to birth and after the baby is born. The modules have activities, quizzes and video clips and works on mobiles, tablets, Pcs, Macs, ipads and laptops. The course can be accessed through our website for parents www.inourplace.co.uk
The Postnatal online course for parents is an 11 module course for mothers, fathers, partners and other adults involved in the care of the baby. The modules include: Understanding feelings- both the parents and baby’s, the baby’s brain, how to respond to crying, baby’s rhythms, healthy sleep patterns, feeding, play and development, baby childcare and there is also a module for dads.The modules have activities, quizzes and video clips and works on mobiles, tablets, Pcs, Macs, ipads and laptops. The course can be accessed through our website for parents www.inourplace.co.uk
These 10 illustrations (A4 Laminated) in a spiral binder show common positions used in Labour and Birth. These illustrations support the delivery of the Solihull Approach Antenatal group ‘Understanding your pregnancy, labour, birth and your baby’.
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