Start Here: Building a Healthy Pregnancy

1. Healthy Pregnancy Starts Here: Prenatal Care, Support & Speaking Up

This training helps expectant families understand the importance of prenatal care and how to navigate healthcare during pregnancy. Parents learn how to prepare for visits, ask questions, access insurance and community support, involve family members, recognize warning signs, and speak up when something does not feel right.

2. Connecting Families to Support: Early Head Start & Community Resources

This training helps families understand how Early Head Start can connect them with resources that support their baby and family. Parents learn about WIC and food assistance, healthcare, housing, transportation, mental health and domestic violence services, Early Intervention, and how Early Head Start can help families navigate referrals and access needed community supports.

3. Healthy Pregnancy, Connected Family: Care & Bonding Before Birth

This training helps expectant families support a healthy pregnancy while building connection with their baby before birth. Parents learn about prenatal care, nutrition, safe medications, avoiding harmful substances, emotional health, pregnancy warning signs, family support, and simple ways to bond through talking, singing, reading, and noticing baby's movements.

4. Prenatal Testing Made Simple: What to Expect & Why It Matters

This training helps expectant families understand common prenatal tests and why they are recommended. Parents learn about blood and urine testing, infection screening, ultrasounds, genetic screening and diagnostic tests, gestational diabetes testing, Group B strep, pregnancy vaccines, and questions they can ask to better understand their results and care.

Staying Healthy & Safe During Pregnancy
5. Pregnancy Warning Signs: Know When to Get Help

This training helps expectant families recognize important pregnancy warning signs and know when to seek medical care. Parents learn about symptoms related to preeclampsia, preterm labor, bleeding, leaking fluid, changes in baby's movement, breathing problems, blood clots, infection, and mental health emergencies—and when to call their provider, get immediate care, or call 911.

6. Eating Well During Pregnancy: Simple, Safe & Affordable Nutrition

This training helps expectant families make healthy, realistic food choices during pregnancy. Parents learn about balanced meals, protein, fruits and vegetables, hydration, prenatal vitamins, folic acid and iron, food safety, healthy fish choices, eating well on a budget, and using WIC and Early Head Start supports when needed.

7. Medication Safety During Pregnancy: Ask Before You Start or Stop

This training helps expectant families make safer decisions about medicines during pregnancy. Parents learn about prescription and over-the-counter medications, vitamins, herbs and supplements, why they should not stop needed medicines without medical guidance, and what questions to ask their healthcare provider or pharmacist before starting or changing anything.

8. Substance Use During Pregnancy: Health, Help & Hope

This training helps expectant families understand how alcohol, nicotine, marijuana, opioids, and other substances can affect pregnancy and a developing baby. Parents learn why honest conversations with healthcare providers matter, how to ask for help, why some substances should not be stopped suddenly without medical guidance, and how treatment, Early Head Start, and family support can help.

9. Emotional Wellness During Pregnancy: Understanding Stress, Anxiety & Depression

This training helps expectant families understand and protect their emotional health during pregnancy. Parents learn about stress, anxiety, depression, grief, healthy coping strategies, family support, treatment options, and how to recognize when it is time to seek professional or emergency help.

10. Oral Health During Pregnancy: Caring for Your Teeth and Gums

This training helps expectant families understand how pregnancy can affect the teeth and gums and why dental care remains important during pregnancy. Parents learn about bleeding and swollen gums, daily brushing and flossing, protecting teeth during morning sickness, when to see a dentist, and how Early Head Start can help families access dental care.

11. Healthy Pregnancy: Safe Movement, Rest & Everyday Comfort

This training helps expectant families learn practical ways to care for their bodies throughout pregnancy. Parents learn about safe physical activity, rest and sleep, managing common pregnancy discomforts, hydration and daily self-care, and how to recognize symptoms that may require medical attention.

12. Healthy Relationships & Family Safety: Recognizing Abuse and Finding Support

This training helps families understand the difference between healthy relationships, conflict, control, and abuse. Parents learn to recognize physical, emotional, sexual, financial, reproductive, and digital abuse; understand how violence can affect pregnancy and young children; and learn about safety planning, confidential support, and resources available through Early Head Start and community partners.

Your Pregnancy Journey
13. First Trimester Essentials: Supporting a Healthy Start

This training helps expectant families understand what happens during the first 13 weeks of pregnancy. Parents learn about early fetal development, common physical and emotional changes, prenatal care, nutrition and folic acid, medication and substance safety, food safety, family support, and warning signs that require medical attention.

14. Second Trimester Essentials: Growth, Movement & Prenatal Care

This training helps expectant families understand what happens during weeks 14–27 of pregnancy. Parents learn about baby's growth, hearing, movement, anatomy ultrasound, nutrition, family support, prenatal appointments, gestational diabetes screening, and warning signs that mean they should contact their healthcare provider.

15. Third Trimester Essentials: Preparing for Birth & Baby

This training helps expectant families prepare for the final weeks of pregnancy and the arrival of their baby. Parents learn about baby's continued growth and movement, common third-trimester changes, prenatal care, signs of labor, birth preparation, newborn essentials, and warning signs that require prompt medical attention.

Preparing for Birth & Baby
16. Preparing for Baby Together: Building a Strong Family Support Plan

This training helps families prepare for a new baby as a team. Parents learn how to communicate needs, share responsibilities and the mental load, prepare older children, plan for life after birth, build a dependable support network, and use Early Head Start and community resources when help is needed.

17. Preparing Families for a Safe Start: Newborn Safety Essentials

This training helps expectant families prepare for their baby's arrival with practical newborn safety information. Parents learn about safe sleep, smoke-free environments, rear-facing car seats, safe baby equipment, and the basic supplies a newborn truly needs.

18. Infant Feeding Essentials: Nourish, Respond & Connect

This training helps families understand how to feed their baby safely and responsively through breastfeeding, expressed breast milk, formula, or a combination. Parents learn about hunger and fullness cues, signs that baby is getting enough, safe bottle feeding and formula preparation, pumping and milk storage, common feeding challenges, and when to seek help from healthcare providers, WIC, or Early Head Start.

19. Labor & Birth Essentials: Know the Signs, Know What to Expect

This training helps expectant families feel more prepared for labor and birth. Parents learn how to recognize signs of labor, time contractions, know when to call or go to the hospital, understand the stages of labor, explore comfort and pain-relief options, prepare for possible changes in the birth plan, choose supportive people, and speak up for their needs during care.

After Baby Arrives: Recovery & Parent Wellness
20. Postpartum Warning Signs: Know When to Get Help

This training helps families recognize serious health warning signs that can happen after childbirth. Parents learn about heavy bleeding, infection, postpartum preeclampsia, severe headaches, vision changes, trouble breathing, chest pain, blood clots, severe pain, extreme weakness, and mental health emergencies—and when to call their provider, seek urgent care, or call 911.

21. Postpartum Recovery: Healing, Rest & Care After Birth

This training helps families understand what to expect while recovering after childbirth. Parents learn about healing after vaginal and cesarean birth, postpartum bleeding, pain and incision care, rest, gentle movement, nutrition and hydration, postpartum medical care, family support, and warning signs that mean they should seek medical help.

22. After Baby: Emotional Wellness, Recovery & Support

This training helps families understand emotional health after childbirth. Parents learn about baby blues, postpartum depression and anxiety, birth trauma, grief, bonding challenges, healthy coping and support, treatment options, and when emotional concerns require professional or immediate help.

23. Life After Baby: Family Adjustment, Support & Self-Care

This training helps families adjust to life after a new baby arrives. Parents learn about changing routines and relationships, emotional health, postpartum self-care, sharing responsibilities, asking for help, building a support network, keeping up with postpartum healthcare, and planning for their family's future.

Caring for Your Newborn
24. Newborn Essentials: What's Normal & When to Get Help

This training helps families understand their newborn's appearance, behavior, feeding, sleep, diapers, and everyday care. Parents learn what is commonly normal during the first weeks of life, how to care for their baby safely, and how to recognize changes or warning signs that require medical attention.

25. Safe Sleep & Safe Soothing: Protecting Babies and Supporting Caregivers

This training helps families keep babies safe during sleep and during periods of crying. Parents learn safe sleep practices, how to create a safe sleep space, ways to soothe a crying baby, how to prevent abusive head trauma, and what caregivers should do when they become tired, frustrated, or overwhelmed.

26. Understanding Your Baby's Cues: Connect, Respond & Support Development

This training helps families understand how babies communicate long before they can talk. Parents learn to recognize hunger, tiredness, overstimulation, and connection cues; respond to crying safely; strengthen bonding and attachment; support early brain development; and build language through talking, singing, reading, and everyday routines.

Keeping Baby Healthy During the First Year
27. Healthy Baby, Healthy Start: Preventive Care in the First Year

This training helps families understand the preventive healthcare their baby needs during the first year of life. Parents learn about medical homes, well-child visits, growth and development, immunizations, newborn screening, hearing and vision, early oral health, and the importance of follow-up when concerns are identified.

Toddlers
28.  Your Growing Toddler: What to Expect from 12–24 Months

This training helps families understand the rapid developmental changes that happen between 12 and 24 months. Parents learn about walking and movement, early language and communication, play, social-emotional development, growing independence, important developmental milestones, simple ways to support learning, and when to talk with a healthcare provider or Early Intervention about concerns.

29.  Your Growing Toddler: What to Expect from 24–36 Months

This training helps families understand development from 24 to 36 months and prepare for the transition to age 3. Parents learn about expanding language, pretend play, social development, movement, independence and self-help skills, developmental milestones, ways to support learning through everyday routines, and when to ask for help about development.

30.  Feeding Your Toddler With Confidence

This training helps families feed toddlers safely and confidently as they transition to family foods. Parents learn about cups and beverages, age-appropriate portions, responsive feeding, picky eating, milk, water and juice, iron-rich foods, mealtime routines, choking prevention, and how to support healthy eating without pressure.

31.  Healthy Teeth From the Start: Toddler Oral Health

This training helps families protect their toddler’s teeth and build healthy oral care habits from the start. Parents learn how to brush with fluoride toothpaste, establish a dental home, prevent early childhood cavities, choose tooth-friendly snacks and drinks, manage bottle and cup habits, and know when to seek dental care.

32.  Big Feelings in Little Children

This training helps families understand common toddler behaviors such as tantrums, frustration, biting, hitting, and difficulty waiting or sharing. Parents learn about co-regulation, realistic expectations, positive guidance, setting calm limits, helping toddlers build emotional skills, and responding to big feelings without harsh punishment.

33.  Talk, Read, Play: Helping Your Toddler Learn

This training helps families support toddler learning and language through everyday interaction. Parents learn how talking, reading, singing, conversation, and play build communication and thinking; how to support bilingual language development; how to make screen use more intentional; and how simple daily routines can become rich learning opportunities.

34.  Safe Little Explorers

This training helps families reduce common injuries as toddlers become more mobile and curious. Parents learn about preventing falls, burns, poisoning, choking, drowning, and furniture tip-overs; safe medication and household storage; car-seat and pedestrian safety; and how to create safer spaces for active exploration.

35.  Healthy Sleep and Daily Routines for Toddlers

This training helps families understand toddler sleep needs and use predictable routines to support healthy rest. Parents learn about naps, bedtime routines, common sleep challenges, consistent wake and sleep times, calming transitions, healthy daily rhythms, and when sleep concerns should be discussed with a healthcare provider.

36.  Well-Child Care From Age 1 to 3

This training helps families understand preventive healthcare needs from age 1 to 3. Parents learn about well-child visits, growth and development, immunizations, developmental surveillance and screening, lead screening, vision and hearing concerns, oral health, and how to prepare for appointments and follow up on concerns.

37.  When Your Toddler Is Sick: What Parents Need to Know

This training helps families care for common toddler illnesses and recognize when medical help is needed. Parents learn about fever, colds, cough, vomiting, diarrhea, dehydration, ear symptoms, safe medication use, supportive care at home, warning signs that mean they should call the doctor, and symptoms that require urgent or emergency care.

38.  Toilet Learning Without Pressure

This training helps families approach toilet learning as a developmental process rather than a battle. Parents learn signs of readiness, how to introduce the potty, build simple routines, respond calmly to accidents, prevent and recognize constipation, understand nighttime dryness, and avoid pressure, shame, or punishment.

39.  Growing Strong: Movement, Play and Healthy Screen Habits

This training helps families support healthy movement and play while building balanced screen habits. Parents learn about active play, gross motor development, outdoor exploration, reducing long periods of sedentary time, choosing and using media intentionally, modeling healthy screen habits, and creating more opportunities for movement throughout the day.