Newborn Behavioural Observations
The Brazelton Centre UK is a national charity dedicated to supporting healthy parent-baby relationships though promoting an understanding of newborn babies’ behaviour.
At Dad Matters, our coordinators undertake Newborn Behaviour Observation (NBO) training during our induction. Babies cannot communicate verbally so their method of communication is their behaviour. The NBO course teaches us how to understand what a baby is communicating by looking at their behaviour through a series of gentle observations. We can then do this with you to show you what your baby is telling us about themselves.
“What is a Newborn Behavioural Observation?”, let’s begin with a brief explanation.
The Newborn Behavioural Observation (NBO for short) is a set of shared observations, designed by the Brazelton Centre, to help practitioners and parents observe the baby’s behaviour together. Since a newborn baby’s method of communicating is their behaviour, taking time to observe and understand these signs, movements and responses, means understanding what that baby is saying, who they are, what they like and what they dislike. The NBO can be used with babies from birth to 3 months old. There are 18 items in total that can be observed on the NBO. Each session is individual, because the practitioner and the parents will be guided by the baby, but it will typically cover:
• Capacity to habituate to light and sound (sleep protection)
• Motor tone and activity level
• Capacity for self-regulation (including crying and consoling)
• Response to stress (indices of the infant’s threshold for stimulation)
• Visual, auditory and social-interactive capacities.
At Dad Matters, we regularly see Dads/parents with newborn babies so in order to enhance our skills and enable us to help parents understand their babies better, we all undergo the newborn behavioural observation training.
If you have a baby under three months old and are interested in hearing more about or indeed receiving the NBO*, drop us a line, ask about these either via your dad matters coordinator or via your Health Visitor. and we can provide more details and can arrange for the NBO to be completed with you.
To discuss arranging an NBO support session with our Dad Matters Co-ordinators
Barnsley – Pete@DadMattersYorkshire.uk
Bradford – Mohammed@Homestartbradford.co.uk
Calderdale – Matthew.elliot@Home-Startleeds.co.uk
Leeds – DARREN>@Home-Startleeds.co.uk
Wakefield – Mark@DadMattersYorkshire.uk
“I am so glad to have been offered the chance to undertake the training and am also extremely grateful and honoured that the five families I have delivered the NBO to so far have allowed me in to their homes to do so.” – Matt
For more information about NBO, Brazelton Centre UK CIO, 66 Devonshire Road, Cambridge, CB1 2BL Registered Charity Number: 1158765 Tel: 01223 314429 info@brazelton.co.uk or please follow the link – https://www.brazelton.co.uk/training/nbo/
Alternatively, visit Brazelton.co.uk/parents/ for lots more useful info
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