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Mums, Dads, and Carers

INFANT (INfant Feeding, Active play and NuTrition) is designed to help families with feeding and active play, to give their baby the best start to life.

INFANT consists of four face-to face group sessions for mums, dads and carers; led by a professional, with content reinforced via a mobile app called My Baby Now.

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Find an INFANT program near you

INFANT sessions are now being offered in various organisations across Victoria and increasingly across Australia. Please contact your local Maternal and Child Health/Child and Family Health services to see if INFANT is being run in your area.

Express your interest in bringing INFANT to your area

My Baby Now App

The My Baby Now app was co-designed with parents, maternal and child health nurses and experts at the Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition, Deakin University and the University of Sydney. It was designed to complement INFANT.

Your pregnancy, including preparing for your baby and a week by week guide.
Breastfeeding, best-practice formula feeding and mixed feeding.
Understanding and responding to baby's cues/signs.
When and how to introduce solid foods and a sippy cup.
Active play ideas.
Strategies for limiting screens.
Experiences, strategies and tips from other mums, dads and carers.
Introducing solids, including articles/ videos, on baby led weaning and vegetarian/vegan diets.
Family meal and recipe ideas.
Looking after yourself.
Sleep and settling tips.

“l love this app, it is the best one out there and l found the information predicated, normalised and provided strategies around the developmental challenges we faced at the time. l found myself less anxious as the information guided me to solutions l could then talk about with my partner.”

My Baby Now User

“I loved it. The topics in the notifications were always spookily relevant to what was going on in my baby’s development. The content was written in a simple easy to understand language which was fact based which l loved-so much on the internet is bias/emotional tainted/opinion.”

My Baby Now User

English and Translated Resources

The Western Public Health Unit in Victoria, in collaboration with INFANT have translated the highly visual INFANT booklets and videos into 6 prioritiy languages: Arabic, Hindi, Punjabi, Simplified Chinese, Urdu and Vietnamese. These resources support mums, dads and carers with evidence-based feeding and active play advice for babies aged 3, 6, 9 and 12 months of age and have been carefully curated to complement the four INFANT group sessions. These translated resources are in an initial pilot phase and will be evaluated and refined over time.

Please complete this form to access the resources. We are using this information for research purposes only, to inform the ongoing evaluation of the translated booklets.

Other resources

The Raising Children Network

Provides free, reliable, up to date and independent information on children and families, funded by the Australian government, reviewed by experts and is non-commercial.

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Maternal and Child Health app

Provides reliable information that families can use every day as well as keep track of Maternal and Child Health appoints for those in Victoria, Australia.

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My Baby Now App

For mums, dads and carers to access MBN, all you need to do is download the app and complete a brief registration form, which then creates your account to access the app.

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In the spirit of reconciliation, the INFANT team acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. The INFANT team at Deakin University is based on the land of the Wadawurrung, Wurundjeri and Boon Wurrung people. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.

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