Health and development age 0 to 2

Help for everything to do with your baby's health and development. From vaccinations, oral health and weaning, to speech, movement and sleep.

• Weaning

  NHS guidance on introducing your baby to solid foods.

• Recipe and meal ideas

  NHS recipe and meal ideas.

• Oral health

  NHS advice for looking after your baby's teeth. 

• Helping your baby to sleep: NHS

  Your baby will have their own pattern of waking and sleeping, and it's unlikely to be the same as other babies.  Advice on helping your baby to sleep.

• Safer sleeping: Lullaby Trust

  Safer sleep reduces the risk of sudden infant death syndrome occurring. Advice on safer sleeping for children up to 12 months old.

• Sleep and night time resources: UNICEF

  Information about infant sleeping and caring for your baby at night.

• Potty and toilet training

  Help for every parent and caregiver with a child's potty and toilet training.

• Vaccinations

  NHS vaccinations and when to have them. 

• Health for under 5's

  NHS advice for happy, healthy under 5s.

• HANDi app

  NHS advice and support if you're child is unwell.

• Medicine cabinet video

  Advice about what to have in a medicine cabinet for children.

• Speech and language

  Great Ormond Street Hospital guidance for speech and language development from birth to 12 months.

• Early Years Speech and Language Therapy Team 

  Advice, assessment and therapy for children with speech, language and communication needs.

• Speech and Language UK progress checker

  Help to understand how your baby is developing.

• Toddler Best Start In Life 

  NHS guidance for helping your child learn to talk by chatting, reading and playing together and how to encourage them to be physically active.

• Baby moves

  NHS guidance on baby movement and ways to play with your baby

• Services for children with additional needs

  Resources and local services for those who think their child may have additional needs and disabilities.

• ERIC: Support for children with a bowel or bladder problem

  Helpline, information and resources, events, training and products for managing continence conditions.