This programme addresses elements of pre-conception health that affect infant mortality, preparing parents to navigate key health contexts for their babies too.
I didn’t know about folic acid and vitamin D. It’s important information. It will help me have a healthy baby. To take supplements is easy, but you have to know to do it and how to get it.
would get vaccinated while pregnant
4% at start
knew to take folic acid and vitamin D
17% at start
would attend screening checks
28% at start
Example session topics
- Introduction: Going to the doctor
- Planning a pregnancy
- Health eating before and during pregnancy
- Weight management when trying for a baby
- Physical activity
- Having a vaccination
- Screening checks, sickle cell and thalassaemia
- Smoking
- Going to the dentist
- Alcohol and drugs (and the impact on your baby)
- Wellbeing and mental health
- Workplace safety, being polite but assertive, and complaining
- Family planning
- Sexual health
Alternatively, the programme can be delivered focussing on the needs of families with babies and small children, with a focus on those themes from their perspective.
- Going to the doctor
- Going to the dentist
- Going to the pharmacy
- Child respiratory health and using NHS111
- Having a vaccination: What do you need and what happens when you have it
- Post-partum wellbeing and mental health
- Smoking
- Solving the health impacts of a damp house
Delivery of Creative English for Infant Health funded by Birmingham City Council was evaluated externally in 2024.