Health Visiting Service

The Northern Trust Health Visiting Service offers family-centred contacts and health reviews from pregnancy until your child goes to school.  Your health visitor will share lots of information for example:

• Parenting – Star Babies, Baby and Me parenting group support
• Infant feeding and nutrition – breastfeeding, bottle feeding, introducing solids
• Child development, play, language development, sleep, toilet training
• Emotional health and wellbeing
• Healthy lifestyles
• Immunisations
• Keeping your child safe
• Behaviour Management Baby & Me – Parenting Group Support is available locally to support the transition to parenthood, especially for first-time mothers and fathers. It builds on the Star Babies home visiting
• There are nine health visiting teams who work across the Trust.
• Star Babies is part of routine the health visiting service for first time parents living within the Northern Trust area, from the antenatal period until the baby is 12 months of age. The focus is on the transition to parenthood and bonding with your baby

We have teams in the following areas:

• Antrim
• Ballymena
• Ballymoney
• Carrickfergus
• Coleraine
• Cookstown
• Larne/Ballyclare
• Magherafelt
• Newtownabbey

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Related Services

• Public Health Nursing Services
• Breastfeeding Support