Healthy lifestyles and emotional wellbeing

Healthy Lifestyles

A well-balanced diet is essential for children in their early years and starts with establishing good eating patterns necessary to ensure they grow and develop appropriately.

Your Health and Children's Centre team can offer you advice around healthy eating habits. They can also show you how to boost your child's relationship with food and helping to deal with the challenges that may arise. They are available to provide support in order for you to give the best opportunity for your child to grow into a healthy and confident adult.

The Healthy Living Service offers support to children, young people, and their families to help remove the barriers to achieving a healthy weight and lifestyle. This free service offers evidence- based information to support long- term healthier lifestyle goals for the whole family.

Staff are trained in the HENRY approach: Henry: Healthy Start, Brighter Future.

You may also find the following websites useful:

• NHS: Your baby's first solid foods
• NHS: Vitamin D
• NHS: Vitamins for children
• Healthy Start NHS
• First Steps Nutrition Trust
• NHS Start4Life
• Unicef: Research on infant nutrition
• Change4Life: Fun ideas to help your kids stay healthy
• Feel Good Suffolk
• Suffolk Sexual Health Service
• Institute of Health Visiting: Parent Tips - Vitamins A,C and D
• NHS: The Eatwell guide

Healthy Start Scheme

If you are more than 10 weeks pregnant or have a child under 4, you may be entitled to get help to buy healthy food and milk. See if you are eligible.

Download the healthy start scheme guide.