Existing antenatal assessment tools rely on maternal self-reporting, include intrusive or emotionally loaded questions, and often exclude fathers or partners. This can unintentionally undermine trust, especially for vulnerable families. They are also time consuming and difficult to undertake during routine appointments. Pregnancy BASICS was created to address these issues and provides a gentler, more inclusive, and observational approach to understanding where families are in their earliest attachment journey.
BASICS gives practitioners a simple way to universally:
Pregnancy BASICS helps bring attachment and bonding for expectant parents and their unborn baby into the heart of professional care.
The Pregnancy BASICS Free Toolkit is an accessible entry point for any service wanting to strengthen parent–infant relationships during pregnancy. It gives practitioners a clear structure for observations and conversations, helping them spot when families are thriving and when they may need extra support. Simple, strengths-based and inclusive of all parents, it’s the ideal way to introduce BASICS into your service and start building consistency in antenatal attachment support.
The Pregnancy BASICS Digital Dashboard is a cost effective, easy to use digital tool that builds on the free toolkit to deliver both frontline and commissioner-level benefits. For practitioners, it works in real time — flagging concerns, identifying barriers, and linking directly to tailored tools and techniques that help strengthen parent–infant attachment. For managers and commissioners, the dashboard turns this data into clear reports at individual, team, cohort, and service level, showing progress trimester by trimester and evidencing the impact of interventions.
Pregnancy BASICS has been designed to work across a range of services and practitioners, including
Whether you have 10 minutes or 60, the tool offers a simple way to gently observe, open up conversations, and build a clearer picture of the parent–fetal relationship.
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