Who we are

Relationships are Everything!

Sometimes things can get in the way of you enjoying your relationship with your baby, such as depression, anxiety, a difficult birth, worries about your baby, or your own parenting experience and difficult events from the past. Having a baby can activate so many of our own insecurities and vulnerabilities as parents.

By offering specialist, therapeutic parent-infant mental health support during pregnancy and in the postnatal period – we can help parents to 'separate out' their own past and present struggles and issues, which without this specialist support, can have a huge impact on the parent-infant bond, relationship and mental health of both.

We believe that most parents want to be ‘the best possible parent they can be to their baby’ (and be a better parent than their own parents!). We want to support parents to build secure attachments and loving bonds with their babies, and go onto break tough negative life cycles which get in the way of what is the most important relationship – the parent infant relationship.

We provide easy to engage, non-judgemental parent-infant therapy and support, for pregnant women, new parents and their partners, who struggle with their emotional wellbeing, other vulnerabilities, and who have concerns about their bonding and relationship with their baby. We are a team of clinical psychologists parent infant therapists and multi-disciplinary professionals and volunteers who are passionate and committed to supporting parents in the Knowsley and Sefton communities.

Again, we are specialists in supporting parents/carers and infants with their mental health, emotional wellbeing and struggles from their babies and building happy, secure and loving relationships with their babies. Sessions are offered to families either in the family home or in the community.

 
 

We welcome telephone enquiries to discuss suitability prior to referral.

Please call us on 0151 351 8801 if you would like to arrange this.

Referrals can be sent to cmicb-ss.merseycarebabs@nhs.uk

Referrals can be made by any professional such as a health visitor, midwife, family nurse, GP, Social Worker, Early Help Worker.

We welcome telephone enquiries to discuss suitability prior to referral. Please call us on 0151 351 8801. Referrals can be sent to cmicb-ss.merseycarebabs@nhs.uk


Information for professionals

We welcome telephone enquiries to discuss suitability prior to referral. Please call us on 0151 351 8801

Our service accepts referrals for parents and carers in Sefton who are pregnant or have a baby aged up to six months, who are struggling with their own wellbeing and/or struggling in their relationship with their baby. Although the referral window is short, we can work with families up until the baby is two. Referrals can be sent to cmicb-ss.merseycarebabs@nhs.uk

In addition to the clinical support we provide to families, we offer specialist parent infant mental health training and consultation to multi-agency professionals locally.

For information on how to refer in Halton, Knowsley, Southport and Forbmy, south Sefton, and Warrington, visit our GP and referrers sections.

Building Attachments and Bonds in Sefton

BABS Sefton offers clinical and therapeutic support to families. Key in providing this support is joint-working, training, and consultation to multi-agency professionals in Sefton. These include Midwives, Health Visitors, GPs, Early Help Workers and Social Workers.

The service accepts referrals from parents and carers who are pregnant or have a baby aged up to six months, who are struggling with their own wellbeing and/or struggling in their relationship with their baby. Although the referral window is short, we can work with families up until the baby is two.

Alongside the clinical support provided to families, specialist parent infant mental health training and consultation to multi-agency professionals has also been provided.

BABS Sefton offers clinical and therapeutic support to families. Key in providing this support is joint-working, training, and consultation to multi-agency professionals in Sefton. These include Midwives, Health Visitors, GPs, Early Help Workers and Social Workers.

We work closely with health colleagues and care professionals to make sure families are fully supported.

We work in partnership with:

Knowsley

Our service accepts referrals for parents and carers in Knowsley who are pregnant or have a baby aged up to three months, who are struggling with their emotional wellbeing and/or struggling in their relationship with their baby. We work with them until baby is two.


Sefton

Our service accepts referrals for parents and carers in Sefton who are pregnant or have a baby aged up to six months, who are struggling with their own wellbeing and/or struggling in their relationship with their baby. Although the referral window is short, we can work with families up until the baby is two.

The service is for:

  • parents who may be struggling to bond with their baby
  • families who are open to past or present safeguarding services
  • parents who struggle with their mental health, wellbeing
  • families with factors such as drug or alcohol use or domestic abuse
  • parents with mild to moderate mental health vulnerability or past trauma/abuse

Parents who struggle with relationships, insecure attachment, separation and loss.

  • Parents who may have had other children removed from their care in the past.

Parents accepted for BABS support will be assessed using the following:

  • Psychological/psychotherapeutic assessment of parent-infant mental health, bond and attachment relationship via clinical interview/sessions
  • Parent-infant observation
  • Collaborative, joint MDT assessments, and ‘think family assessments.

We accept referrals from midwives, health visitors, GPs, social workers and other multi-agency professionals working with families. An initial home visit will take place within four weeks of referral being accepted. We welcome telephone enquiries to discuss suitability prior to referral. Please call us on 0151 351 8801. Referrals can be sent to cmicb-ss.merseycarebabs@nhs.uk


Halton and Warrington (BIBS)

Here to help any mums and dads who are having difficulty bonding or developing their relationship with their baby. 

To access support, you will need to be expecting a baby or have a baby under six months at the time of referral, and you will need to be registered with a GP in Halton on Warrington.