Know Your Baby, Trust Yourself

Know Your Baby, Trust Yourself is a personal home visiting program offered by Richie McFarland Children’s Center, experts in early childhood development and parenting support.  Our customized in-home services are conducted by a highly trained early childhood specialist and focus on helping parents gain peace of mind while learning about their baby’s developmental strengths.  We teach parents how to help their baby reach toward and move to their next level of development.  Our focus is on your baby’s movement and coordination, problem solving and play skills, communication and speech and other developmental indicators including your baby’s emotional and social interactions.  Our focus is also on you – the new parent – providing you with just the right tools and information to give you the confidence you need.

 

Our consultation is distinct and apart from medical visits to your child’s primary healthcare provider.  We do not advise about medical matters.  However, we work with physicians and community resources when the need arises.  Our goal is to help new parents feel secure in their ability to help their child grow and flourish.  New parents will feel assured by having professional support right in their home.

 

Our initial enrollment visit can begin as early as the very end of pregnancy to ensure that you, as a new mother or father, are prepared and confident as your new baby is about to come home.  The personal home visits are offered at a frequency that you determine is best for your family, a one-time intensive visit, to quarterly visits, to every other month or even monthly.  

 

Benefits to new parents

· Awareness of the developmental stages of your baby

· Tools to help your baby advance from one stage to another

· Identification of strategies and activities to stimulate development

· Guidance for managing a child’s daily routine including feeding, sleeping, playing and temperament

· Referrals to community resources

· Support with the stresses of parenting

· Increased confidence and peace of mind

 

Price

RMCC offers a variety of packages that provide parents with a choice of the level of involvement right for them.  These packages include:

 

Single Visit Intensive: $150  This one-time hour and half long home visit is designed to provide new parents with an overview of developmental and behavioral stages that can be expected with new babies.  A general guideline of toys and resources is provided.  

 

Quarterly Visit Package: $500   This package includes four one-hour personal home visits throughout the year.  Each visit will identify your child’s strengths and determine how best to help your child take his/her next step through play activities and to use everyday interactions to teach your child and help him/her learn and grow.  Each quarter your baby’s growth and development will be assessed and you will be provided with developmental suggestions and ideas. 

 

Bimonthly Visit Package: $700   This package includes six one-hour personal home visits in the course of a year.  Every other month, we will identify your child’s strengths and determine how best to help your child take his/her next step through play activities.  We will support you to use everyday interactions to teach your child and help him/her learn and grow through play and to use toys and other tools to match the specific needs of your baby at key touch points in his/her life. 

 

Monthly Visit Package $1,200  This package provides new families with a one-hour monthly visit from our early childhood development professional, allowing families to track their child’s growth and development on a monthly basis.  In addition to the 12 personal home visits, families receive developmental updates every other month and have telephone access to our full staff of trained developmental specialists.  This package provides new parents with the optimal peace of mind.

 

Know Your Baby, Trust Yourself is a program of the Richie McFarland Children’s Center.  For more information, contact Pat Sue Spear at 603-658-6233 or pspear@richiemcfarland.org.

An In-home Learning Program for New Parents

Is there anything more exciting than the birth of your first child?  Your world is forever changed by the arrival of this new life that brings such joy to you and your family.  And yet new parents often find themselves unprepared and unsure as to what they should expect.  Even with stacks of new baby guides at their side, parents often feel overwhelmed by their responsibility. Is their baby learning and developing at “expected” rates?  How can they help their baby learn and grow?  And how can they resolve challenging behaviors within the daily routine such as eating and sleeping?  Many new parents seek peace of mind and assurance that they are doing all they should be doing to help their baby grow.

RICHIE MCFARLAND CHILDREN’S CENTER

11 Sandy Point Road

Stratham, NH  03885

(603) 778-8193

www.richiemcfarland.org