Ideas for bonding before birth

If you want more tips and suggestions for ways to keep bonding with your bump, then there are lots of online resources.

Disclaimer: The following are external websites and as such, NHS Tayside and Ninewells Hospital do not take responsibility for their content.

The Ready Steady Baby site offers further information about building your relationship with your baby in pregnancy and tips on how to begin to bond.

The BBC Tiny Happy People site has guides to what babies can hear in the womb and ways to start bonding, with advice to help you to start communicating.

The Best Beginnings app allows you to understand your baby’s development through pictures and descriptions day-by-day over the course of pregnancy. You can also discover further information about your baby, including videos showing different ways that different parents tried bonding with their bumps

The Association for Infant Mental Health has information and videos to help you get to know your baby before and after birth.

Scottish Bookbug offers advice about how to talk to your bump with ideas of songs, rhymes and stories you can try.

Solihull offer online courses to support parents at all stages of their baby’s or child’s development, including during pregnancy. Their antenatal course supports parents to better understand pregnancy and birth, including support to understand and bond with your baby. Solihull courses can be accessed for free by all parents in Scotland with the code TARTAN.