By Kerrie Gottliebsen
Tweddle Child & Family Health Service Board Chair, Dr Nicole Milburn (Clinical Psychologist and Infant Mental Health Consultant) welcomed the final report into the Inquiry into Perinatal Services undertaken by the Family and Community Development Committee of the Parliament of Victoria, tabled in Parliament on 20 June 2018. “I’m pleased to see the final report […]
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By Kerrie Gottliebsen
It was October, 79 years ago when Lorraine Carroll and Jim Hevey were last at Tweddle. Both babies were struggling premmies with feeding complications. Jim was 11 weeks premature and not expected to live past the night of his birth. It was Lorraine’s second admission to the Tweddle Baby hospital as a 5-month old baby. […]
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By Kerrie Gottliebsen
As part of Men’s Health Week, Working Out Dads facilitator Scott Hall offers helpful links for dads in the early years including blogs, stories, research and videos. The overwhelming theme is the importance of dads to the health of their children and families, but dads first need to look after themselves. Tweddle’s Working Out Dads is […]
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By Scott Hall and Kerrie Gottliebsen
June 11 – 17 is Men’s Health Week which coincides with Tweddle’s roll out of Working Out Dads, an innovative parenting and health program for dads of 0-4 year olds held in fitness centres across Melbourne’s west. The objective of Working Out Dads is to connect, support and strengthen the capacity of dads in the […]
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By Kerrie Gottliebsen
Next week Tweddle will join health professionals, academics and organisations from around the world to celebrate Infant Mental Health Awareness Week 2018 (#IMHAW18), a global initiative from 11th – 17th of June that highlights the distinct needs of babies and toddlers. This year’s focus is ‘The Importance of Attachment’. Strengthening secure attachment has driven Tweddle’s parent, […]
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