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A few months ago, while walking home, I heard a child screaming about not wanting to leave the playground. The parents were also...

From maternal childhood maltreatment to children’s emotional-behavioural problems: what can be done to break the link I have written this...

Play is a very serious activity for children, and is, as the Italian physician and educator, Maria Montessori, said, the work of the...

An interview with Kate Marsh, a Midwifery Manager at Tommy’s on Word Prematurity Day Today, the 17th of November, is World Prematurity...

This blog was written together with my dear friend and colleague Katie Hazelgrove, who is a postdoctoral researcher in the Section of...

I can tell you now, that being completely prepared for the arrival of a new baby is impossible! However, lots can be done to arrive as...

A few years ago, I was at some close friends’ house and their baby was sleeping in his room. Suddenly, while we were having dinner...

Directly connected to the infant need of contact with the caregivers, which I have discussed in the previous article in my column,...

In my last article, I talked about the importance of parental response to the baby and, in general, of the parent-infant relationship for...

How first experiences impact the infant development Two days after my daughter was born, in Milan, Italy, I was in the hospital nursery...

An interview with our new columnist, a psychologist and a mother, Dr Alessandra Biaggi Ahead of the launch of the new column “The...

Co-written by Katie Hazelgrove. This is the third week of our Maternal Mental Health series, and it is dedicated to Postpartum...

The role of psychiatric symptoms and parenting stress Postpartum psychosis: which are the symptoms and which women are more at risk...

Identifying women at risk could protect them and their infants. Perhaps not everyone knows that depression during pregnancy is as common...