{"id":6954,"date":"2018-06-12T17:15:22","date_gmt":"2018-06-12T07:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/?p=6954"},"modified":"2018-06-12T17:23:22","modified_gmt":"2018-06-12T07:23:22","slug":"why-infant-mental-health-is-so-important","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/why-infant-mental-health-is-so-important\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Why infant mental health is so important"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Babies are born to be social. They want to interact with people. Yet when they are sick they are placed in an environment where their parents can\u2019t be with them all the time.<\/p>\n<p>We know that being in our Newborn Intensive Care Unit can be a stressful time in a family and their baby&#8217;s life &#8211; that&#8217;s why we have an Infant Mental Health team.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a special look into why their job is so important.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/267938172?app_id=122963\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" frameborder=\"0\" title=\"RCH Infant Mental Health Ward Round\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>For advice or to learn more about mental health and wellbeing in babies and young children, visit our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rch.org.au\/kidsinfo\/fact_sheets\/Mentalhealthinfantsandchildren\/\">Kids Health Info fact sheet.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We know that being in our NICU can be a stressful time in a family and their baby&#8217;s life &#8211; click through to see what work we&#8217;re doing to help. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":6955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8971,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6954"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6959,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6954\/revisions\/6959"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}