On April 13th the theme-event ‘Sensitive Care in Babies’ took place, an initiative of KION and the Baby & Child Research Center. About 100 people attended the event to learn more about this topic. What does science say? Carolina de Weerth spoke about the importance of early development: experiences at an early age affect physical…

One in five pregnant women experiences anxiety, stress and/or depression during the perinatal period. Many of these feelings go unnoticed and therefore untreated. TROUW released an article on these feeling in the perinatal period. Here, Carolina elaborately explains the importance of mental support during the perinatal period and more specifically the importance of our PEPO…

The Growing Facts Podcast is a podcast that translates the science behind foetal development and helps you filter out all the weird advice floating out there that isn’t based on good evidence. Carolina de Weerth was interviewed by this podcast to answer the question: ‘what does gut microbiota have to do with physical and mental…

Carolina de Weerth responds to a parenting question for the column ‘Opgevoed’ in newspaper NRC. You can read the article below! To read it online:

Yvonne Willemsen has recently been interviewed by the Voeding Nu magazine. This magazine focusses on the recent trends and developments regarding nutritional sciences. Yvonne explained here what her PhD project looks like. Curious? Read the entire article here: NAV-lid Yvonne Willemsen: ‘Effecten van borstvoeding nabootsen’ | Voeding Nu  In addition, Yvonne recently won second place of the…

As many as half of the working parents with children in the age of 0-4 years, struggle with symptoms such as fatigue, stress and depression. The influence of work on the pregnancy and baby period is unfortunately still an understudied problem. On January 26, experts Roseriet Beijers and Joyce Knappe conducted the webinar “Ouderschap en…

Stress can impact neurodevelopment of the child, even before birth. One of the ways this is hypothesized to happen is via a mother’s heightened cortisol levels during pregnancy. In the current study, researchers were unable to find evidence for this hypothesis. This recently published study examined associations between late pregnancy maternal cortisol levels and individual differences in…

Roseriet Beijers joined podcast-makers Hanneke Hendrix and Alex van der Hulst in their special episode on parenting myths and facts. They talk about contradictory parenting advices and its applicability in the daily life of a parent. Listen to the episode ‘De mythe van het opvoedboek‘ below or on the podcast website.

Last week Carolina de Weerth was live on Radio 1! In a recent study, Japanese and Italian scientists studied how holding could influence a baby’s crying before going to sleep. They found that five minutes of carrying followed by five to eight minutes of sitting down is the best combination. Carolina was invited to talk…