If you’re a new parent looking for wellness support, this program can help make a difference in this new stage of your life!
Enjoy Your Baby is a 5-session, 10-hour course that provides support and training in skills to maintain wellness and cope with symptoms of low mood, stress and anxiety in the year after the birth of a child, and helps prevent mood disorders such as postpartum depression.
Join an upcoming course (pilot project):
- Enjoy Your Baby (Saanich Neighbourhood Place)
Victoria, BC – Mondays, March 31st to May 5th, 2025 – 5:15pm to 6:45pm
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- Enjoy Your Baby (CMHA Vernon) – Open to BC residents
Virtual / Online – Tuesdays, April 1st to April 29th, 2025 – 2pm to 4pm
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- Enjoy Your Baby (CMHA BC) – Open to BC residents
Virtual / Online – Wednesdays, May 21st to June 18th, 2025 – 10am to 12pm
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What you’ll learn
How to:
- Make positive changes
- Build your confidence as a parent
- Tackle your doubts
- Feel closer to your baby
- Ask for the support you need
- Find some “you time”
- Solve problems
You’ll also meet other new parents and have lots of fun!
About the course
- Group-based CBT course
- Offered in five sessions (10 hours total)
- For parents and caregivers of children between 1 and 14 months of age
- Led by a certified facilitator
- Course co-designed by Dr. Chris Williams (Living Life to the Full, Bounce Back) and Dr. Michelle Haring (BC psychologist, and expert in CBT and reproductive mental health)
Did you know?
- 9 – 31% of mothers experience depression in the first year after childbirth (1)
- Rates of anxiety problems in new mothers are roughly double what they are among women of a similar age who are not postpartum (1)
1. BC Reproductive Mental Health Program & Perinatal Services BC. (2014). Best Practice Guidelines for Mental Health Disorders in the Perinatal Period. http://www.perinatalservicesbc.ca/Documents/ Guidelines-Standards/Maternal/MentalHealthDisordersGuideline.pdf
The course will be piloted with community partners in early 2025, followed by a program evaluation and public launch in mid-2025. If you would like to learn more about hosting or participating in the pilot or public courses, please sign up to receive email notifications below
Organizations
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Program Development
Enjoy Your Baby was developed in the UK by Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy expert Dr. Chris Williams. Thanks to generous funds raised by the Shoppers Foundation for Women’s Health, CMHA BC is updating the Enjoy Your Baby course and booklet for Canadian audiences.
