In Home Service

Telehealth

Tweddle’s in-home parenting clinicians provide intensive, caring, experienced support for parents and carers. Whether it be face to face, on your phone, laptop, desktop or other mobile device, we make a time that suits you, to connect with you and your baby or toddler. We can use zoom, or chat over the phone depending on your preference.

Tweddle’s Fee For Service consultations are delivered within the week of your inquiry. A free 15 minute follow up call and emailed resources are provided with your booking. The Telehealth costs are as follows;

• One 1 hour consultation $150
• Two 1 hour consultations $280
• Three 1 hour consultations $390

In Home support for mums and dads

Tweddle offer gentle solutions to helping your baby or young child learn to sleep and settle. We provide expert in home and telephone support for baby and toddler sleep, settling, behaviour, feeding and parenting uncertainty.

Tweddle’s In Home Packages are provided as both funded and fee for service programs. Organisations may purchase individual or multiple in home consultations as part of a care package for families. Contact Tweddle’s Manager Community Programs  on (03) 9689 1577 for more information.

Tweddle also provide telephone consultations and a one on one Private Day Stay Clinic in Footscray.

Tweddle support over one hundred families every week with parenting programs, counselling and resources. Whether it be for sleep and settling, childhood behaviour, breastfeeding and bottle feeding, an unsettled baby or discussing routines, we are here to help.

Our priority is the health and welfare of your family. Your caring consultant will encourage you and provide specialised advice that will help you feel confident and understood.

Phone us on (03) 9689 1577 to chat about which of the following packages will suit your needs. Cancellation fees apply for telephone and in home consultations – please see below.

Sleep and Settling Day Time Support

Package one

• Duration:             2.5hrs
• Cost:                    $295

Package two

• Duration              4 hours
• Cost                       $450

We come to you and go through any parenting concerns you have (feeding, sleeping, behaviour, routines etc).  After the visit we prepare any information required, points from your visit and send them to you, and you also have a follow up phone call to see how everything is going.

Telephone Consultation

• 30 minute consultation    $80
• 45 minute consultation    $105

By appointment only. A specialist Tweddle Nurse will provide you with reassurance, information, support and strategies tailored to your individual needs.

Private Day Stay Program

• Duration:             Approx. 5-6 hrs ( 9.45 am to 4pm )
• Cost:                    $405

Tweddle’s Private Day Stay Program in Footscray offers parents the opportunity to spend a day, one-on-one, with a specialist Tweddle Clinician. Parents can run through a good portion of a child’s daily routine, ask questions and receive helpful resources. Your Tweddle Clinician will cover sleep and settling, attachment, feeding and nutrition, routines, developmental ages and stages and any other questions you may have.

All linen is provided, there is tea and coffee making facilities; you just need to bring something to eat for yourself and anything your child will need for the day (bottles, formula, solids). A support person is welcome.

Intake 

Families can self refer or have their health professional refer either by phoning us during business hours or by contacting us using the details below.

Staff

The Tweddle In Home Service consists of experienced Tweddle Nurses and Early Parenting Practitioners who deliver flexible programs designed to adapt to your family’s needs.  Our staff are qualified to work through a broad range of parenting challenges which can create vulnerability such as anxiety, depression, disability and relationship breakdown.

We understand the crucial role parents play in supporting healthy child development and the growing brain.  This early development lays the foundation for a healthy adulthood and lifelong wellbeing.

Gift Vouchers

Would you like to support a friend, colleague or family member with an In Home Gift Voucher? This gift will help the family with a broad range of parenting issues. Our In Home team visit the Melbourne Metropolitan area. Phone Team Leader on (03) 9689 1577 and we will email or post a voucher to you, which can be used in a 12 month period.

Tweddle In-Home Consultants can help with parenting concerns such as:

• Unsettled babies
• Parenting uncertainty
• Infant and toddler behaviour difficulties
• Sleep and settling concerns
• Breastfeeding and bottle feeding (Lactation Consultant)
• Baby and toddler feeding problems
• Behaviour difficulties

Tweddle In Home Service will ;

• Optimise the developmental environment for children
• Increase parental understanding of a child’s needs
• Enhance parental confidence and competence across key transitions
• Increase parental resources in responding to a child’s needs
• Enhance parental communication and problem solving skills

Download the Tweddle In Home Brochure PDF

Enquiries :

Call us during business hours on (03) 9689 1577 to talk about the how the Tweddle In Home Service can support your family.

or email LeAnn.Williams@tweddle.org.au

*consultation fees are subject to change

CANCELLATIONS

We require 24 hours cancellation notice prior to your scheduled phone consultation, home visit or day stay, otherwise a cancellation fee is applicable as follows:

Phone consultation: $30 cancellation fee

Home visit & Private Day Stay: $100 cancellation fee