Check out the new resources and updates that the INFANT team have been developing to help facilitators with the delivery, promotion and implementation of INFANT. These can be found in the facilitator’s resources section of the INFANT website and using the links below:
New resources
- Promotion flyer that can be tailored to your service to promote your local INFANT groups.
- INFANT facilitator guidelines on the core components and implementation of the INFANT program.
- INFANT online delivery guidelines with advice on setting up and trouble-shooting for online sessions.
- INFANT participant certificate to provide to parents upon completion of the 4 INFANT sessions.
- Communication Essentials Kit for promotion of INFANT via your organisation’s digital channels including social media. This supports the updated INFANT Promotion Guide with more hints and tips to help you to promote INFANT in your community.
- Coming soon is the INFANT language guide: a summary of positive, values-based messaging and healthy language to help practitioners to discuss sensitive issues such as body image, inclusivity and engaging parents with values-based messaging focused on positive outcomes.
Updates to the My Baby Now app
- Expanded eligibility – MBN is intended for parents alongside the INFANT group sessions, but it can also be promoted to all parents with babies less than 12 months of age.
– new promotional video to show parents from Sheree, a parent from the INFANT program.
– new promotional video to show parents from Rachel, a researcher from the INFANT program.
- New ‘solids’ topic on vegetarian and vegan diets – Read the new ‘tips to ensure a well-based vegetarian or vegan diet’ and sample meal plans, or watch the new video for parents on “planning a plant-based diet” on the MBN app. You can also refer parents to an Accredited Practising Dietitian (APD) for professional advice on vegetarian, vegan and other special dietary needs.
- New update – young children’s dental health: In partnership with Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, INFANT will be undertaking a trial to examine the impact of INFANT and MBN on dental health outcomes of children to 4 years of age. A new dental health topic is now available on the MBN app.
Your task
Submit a comment with your feedback about how the new resources or updates might be incorporated as part of the local delivery of the INFANT program. Are there any additional resources you’d like to see developed by the INFANT team?
Read the responses from others and replies from the INFANT team. Click the ‘mark complete’ button when you’re ready, then select ‘next lesson’ for the next step.
The Vegetarian and Vegan handouts are beneficial in supporting families to follow a balanced diet.
Would like the app to differentiate between being a parent or a professional user.
Like many others having more resources in particular on Vegetarian and Vegan diets will be useful.
Dental health and vegetarian/vegan diet information useful
the vegan and vegetarian information is useful
Like others I am also very excited about the vegetarian and vegan resources to enable families to access consistent and well researched information. The communications kit will also be very useful.
good to have vegan and vegetarian resources –
Great to have templates available for social media – however we are currently only supporting this program to be run by another local provider so wont use directly. Having preapproved information and ideas does help with promotion and keeping a consistent brand/message.
Had already been using the zip file to utilise the images in social media and promotion. Pleased to see the inclusion of vegan and vego diets info
Great to have access to the media files to assist in promotion
The promotion guides will be handy- including the email banners to increase internal awareness of the program within our health service. The templates for social media posts are great – will save time and keep people online engaged
Looking forward to exploring these resources in more detail. The Communications essentials kit and the Language guide will be key resources for me, playing more of a support and promotion role rather than delivering sessions.
Vegan and vegetarian diets in early childhood have been ignored topics for a long time. It is great that we can now meet the needs of these families and not alienate them by exclusion.
I agree Mandy. Meeting these families on their terms is very important.
Wonderful information for our children and families who eat vegetarian and vegan foods.
Important as a practitioner we can offer correct information.
I put the link to the My Baby Now App on the front of the 4 month KAS pack as a great recourse for parents as they start solids with their infant.
Great to see the update on supporting families that are offering vegetarian and vegan diets.
We use the INFANT program in our FTPG’s, as a means of educating parents on the introduction to solids, active play and less screen time.
We recommend the My Baby Now app within this session.
Sample meal plans for vegetarian diet, pictures and videos are a fantastic idea! Being able to refer parents to an APD for professional advice around vegetarian diets will also be very useful.
I think it’s great that there is now more information of vegetarian and vegan diets. Sample meal plans and videos are a great way to convey information and give families ideas of how to implement this information into their daily life. It is also important that we are discussing the key nutrients that we want to ensure are incorporated in a baby’s diet.
addition of vegan vegetarian diet info on the MBN app is great along with the dental health info which I usually talk about in my healthy tums healthy gums program
I am also pleased to see some specific information for families on Vegan diets, a great addition to the app
Videos are always helpful particularly during the sessions.
I look forward to checking out the vegetarian and vegan info for parents as i am seeing it a lot more in my practice and still learning the best advice to provide families to ensure the children are getting adequate nutrient intake.
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The updating of resources, marketing and info on the MBN app will help facilitators and parents access the most up to date information, and hopefully making healthier lifestyle choices for their family.
The vegan and vegetarian resources will make a big difference to the support offered.
Great to see Vegan and vegetarian resources available, this will be very beneficial for our families.
As many others have commented, the addition of the vegetarian/vegan evidence-based practical advice (incl Dietitian referral pathways) is great. Also excellent to have a focus on linking oral health (and your proposed new associated research stream – good linkages with the DHSV Healthy Families Healthy Smiles program
Good addition of the resources to assist in promoting infant and it would be even more helping to help with the administrative side, so it is great that more resources have been developed to assist in getting the word out about infant and the my baby now app.
Great to have social media packs and more promotional materials, as well as the inclusion of adaptations for vege / vagen diets
The addition of vegetarian and vegan advice is really beneficial for both myself and families I engage with especially considering more families are following these diets
Having access to the most up to date information for Parents who are planning to wean baby onto a vegetarian or vegan diet is so important and valuable.
Wonderful addition of the vegetarian / vegan diets, this is a question that has come up in most sessions. We normally refer to a dietician for further advice, so great to have this table which we can refer to.
The clips for the presentations really need updating – they lose the current demographic….
Thanks for this feedback Rebecca. We are currently working on updating the INFANT session videos to be more contemporary, shorter and sharper with greater reference to the key messages and the My Baby Now app. We will keep everyone posted when they are availble but we are anticipating the first half of next year. Watch this space!
Rachel (INFANT team)
Really glad to have some extra help with vege/vegan diet – great new resources!
Great additional topic areas – so important to include advice for Vego/Vegans!
That’s great that you have been able to supply social media packs to help council advertise and promote the program as many MCH programs are hard to get through our comms team.
lovely to see Vegan and vegetarian options for a more inclusive approach
‘good resource
Love the new inclusion of vegan/vegetarian diets!
I love the new areas of vegan and vegetarian diets, very helpful.
Like Glenda I have had issues accessing the App recently (I am trying the update from the Appstore as suggested).
From the my colleagues comments it looks like a great addition.
I am seeing an ever increasing number of Vegetarian & Vegan families so to have this evidence based information available for their easy access will be so helpful.
Will definitely be beneficial to families we work with
Will definitely be able to use it in my practice
Yes, I definitely need more knowledge on vegetation / vegan meal idea’s to share with families
Having vegetarian and vegan options is essential as there are many families that aren’t vegetarian but choose to have meat free days.
the updates are very useful for many families, however the word puree needs to be replaced with “smooth” food in line with RCH “intro to food in the first 12 months”, it brings confusion to families with your mixed message.
Great addition of the vegetarian and vegan resources.
The additional vegetarian and vegan resources are great and very beneficial, as well as the addition of dental care.
Great to hear that information on vegan/vegetarian diets and dental care is now included in the MBN app. The promotional videos are great and can be sent to interested and enrolled families. I didn’t notice any difference in the promotional flier template – I may have missed the changes?
Very good resource as we do have families who are vegetarian and vegan.
yeah some info on vegetarian and vegan diets
The addition of vegetarian/vegan diet resources is very beneficial.
Good resource
Great resource.
Many of our families are vegetarian/vegan and it is is great to have these new resources.
Agree, very helpful to have these extra resources.
great new resources
the new resources will be most useful as many g families are vegan / vegetarian.
the dental hygiene addition may hopefully encourage caregivers to commence cleaning teeth early. as yet i have been unable to view the material if it is actually available ?
Hi Glenda
The new dental care topic is available in the latest version of the app. The app should automatically update unless you have disabled updates at the operating systems level. In this case, you will need to open the app on “Appstore” or “google play” and then initiate the update. I hope this helps.
Kind regards
Rachel Laws (INFANT team)
It’s great to see the addition of vegetarian/vegan content as this is likely to be more culturally appropriate for some of our local families.
Vegetarian and vegan advice offers a choice keeping the family/culture in mind
Our community caters for many vegetarian and vegan families. The addition of vegetarian and vegan evidence based information is inclusive and I am sure appreciated.
The vegetarian and vegan information on the App is very beneficial.
Great additions. The vegetarian/vegan sample meal plans are a great idea for parents.
The MBN App considers all dietary choices which makes it inclusive. The recipes in the MBN App are used when delivering the 6 month INFANT session in our area to show parent’s easy food preparation/cooking in a demonstration session.
The new resources will support our current delivery model.
Great initiative for the addition re dental health on the app. Also have a dietician referral pathway for vegan/vegetarian/ special needs too
It is great to have resources for vegetarian and vegan families to support the education and information we can give them.
I find it very helpful to have extra resources on Vegetarian and vegan diets and that it is easy for Parents to access the information esp. through the MBN app. The introduction of young children’s dental health will assist with discussing dental and oral care.
I usually like to refer a vegetarian or vegan family to apaediatric dietician to ensure the infant receives all the nutrients needed.
The vegetarian and vegan advice on My Baby Now is very helpful.The table summarising key nutrients , sources and tips is great, yet it is difficult to read as one cannot enlarge the area.
I would like to have more resources on vegan/ vegetarian diets.
I find the vegetarian advice beneficial to support families . Great examples of food.
I find the table and sample meal plan for vegetarian / vegan diets particularly beneficial as this gives families a clear guide with examples of food choices to support each nutrient. This is so valuable with these diets becoming more common for so many families.
I find the addition of Vegetarian and Vegan advice beneficial. Exploring these diets, in particular vegan, which I have at times felt out of my depth in regards to growth and impact on brain development. Having additional evidence based resources assists with what at times can be a very emotional topic for parents.