Ateah - recommendations and future research

In my study of a pilot parent education intervention for first time expectant parents, I found that parents were really interested in the information, they wanted to hear more, they thought all parents should have this information. And so my recommendations was that a program should be developed and expanded, whether it’s current prenatal education that we have for parents in Canada, the US, many countries have prenatal education. Usually it’s optional though and often it comes at a cost. So my recommendation is that programs be made widely available for parents, free of cost and that they include the information such as I’ve mentioned, you know, prenatal development, labour and delivery expectations and how to manage labour and delivery and, of course, my personal passion, how to care for a young infant and even up to the age of one and a half to encourage healthy development. So that is something that I personally want to look at developing; a prenatal education intervention and really focusing on how parents can be best prepared to raise their children and to feel good about themselves as parents.