Dancer Emilie Weisse, using scientific knowledge provided by BRC researcher Sabine Hunnius, created a theatre show for babies from 6 to 18 months. The show, based on scientific insights, contains a fluid performance of sounds, colour and movement, in which the young audience is taken on a sensory journey. The first show was a great…

This summer Roseriet Beijers was interviewed for the summer edition of Radboud Recharge. She talks about parenting advices and scientific facts about parenting. She unravels myths on indulgence, breastfeeding, co-sleeping and attachment. You can find the interview (in Dutch) here.

The International Congress of Infant Studies -or in short ICIS 2022 – took place in the beautiful Canadian capital city Ottawa. The conference set the stage for an inspiring three-day program within an international and interdisciplinary scientific environment that saw theoretical and methodological exchanges and discussions. The DPB lab was well represented by the attendees…

The SMILEY team likes to announce that we just started a new wave of data collection at 2 years. While we are still busy with collecting data at 8 months, the oldest SMILEY children just turned 2 and are invited for a new SMILEY wave. This round will be a bit different and will be entirely…

This coming summer the International Congress of Infant Studies conference will take place in Ottawa, Canada. The conference theme is aimed at Developmental Cascades. In recent years, researchers have progressed their understanding of connections between behaviors, abilities and processes at multiple levels of analysis (biological, neural, behavioral, environmental, cultural), across different domains (motor, language, social,…

We are happy to announce that the GO Baby study has started recruiting. In the GO Baby study (Gewoontes in de Opvoeding van Baby’s) we investigate caregiving habits of mothers with young infants through a nation-wide online survey. Besides, we will invite 100 mothers for a lab visit, in which we assess how behaviors during…

On April 13th we organized the symposium Beginnersgeluk. After more than a year of preparation it was time for our live (!) Symposium Beginnersgeluk – een goede start voor kind en ouder. We organized this day full of interesting lectures about the first 1000 days in collaboration with VSV Samen Nijmegen. A good startGynaecologist Martine…

Carolina de Weerth was interviewed by the UWV (Uitvoeringsinstituut Werknemersverzekeringen) about the expansion of parental leave in the Netherlands. She believes that there should be more initiatives to make parental leave more accessible for both parents and employers. It is important that employees can take longer parental leave when a baby is born. But employers…

Een goed begin is het halve werk, daar zijn wetenschap én praktijk het hartgrondig over eens. De periode vanaf de zwangerschap tot de leeftijd van twee jaar is cruciaal voor de ontwikkeling en latere gezondheidsuitkomsten van een kind. Daarom organiseren VSV Samen en het Baby & Child Research Center (voor het eerst samen!) een symposium…

Our review paper ‘Human milk: From complex tailored nutrition to bioactive impact on child cognition and behavior’ has been published! Please find it here. We would like to thank the wonderful team of top researchers that contributed to this review, and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) for the Early Career Partership…