Health Visiting
- Health Visiting Teams
- Introduction to Health Visiting
The Health Visiting Service supports families with a new baby or child under five-years-old. They can offer advice and guidance.
The team includes health visitors, community staff nurses, community nursery nurses. Health visitors are registered nurses or midwives who are trained in the care and development of pre-school children.
The team will talk with you about:
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you and your partner's own health and wellbeing
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your child’s health and development needs.
They can:
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provide direct support to you
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signpost you to a wide range of services from the rest of the Early Help team.
- Working for East Sussex Healthcare Trust
- Building Relationships
- Bump and Beyond
- Caring for your Mental Health
- Coping with a Crying Baby
- Dads and non-birthing Partners
- Healthy Lifestyle
- Immunisations
- Newborn Hearing Screening
- Safe Sleep
- Safety for Babies and Young Children
- Stopping Smoking
- Understanding your Red Book
- Breastfeeding Hand Expressing
- Breastfeeding Positioning and Attachment
- Responsive bottle feeding
- Responsive Breastfeeding
- Breastfeeding What to Expect
