Giving your child the best start in life | Royal Borough of Greenwich

Giving your child the love, care and nurture they need from conception to age 2 can put them on a path for lifelong emotional and physical health.

Our Best Start in Life offer brings together advice from Family Hubs and partners. This can help you prepare, learn how to keep you baby safe and get support for you and your family as you start your journey into parenthood.

Advice, support and services

A pregnant woman in a bed while a doctor places a stethoscope on her belly.

Pregnancy and maternity support (NHS)

A newborn baby in a sling between their parents.

Register a birth

A professional holding up a tablet to a mother and her baby.

Health Visiting Service

A newborn baby pressed against their mother's chest.

Infant feeding and breastfeeding advice

A circle of parents with their babies or soon to be parents.

Parenting support

Parents holding hands in the foreground while their child walks ahead of them.

Emotional wellbeing support for new parents

A mother taking picture of her toddler on a small slide.

Support for families at children's centres and family hubs

A baby sitting in their mother's lap as their father reads to them from an open book.

Play, communication and home learning for ages 0 to 2

Three young children sitting at a table next to two adults as they play various toys.

Childcare and funded early learning