Adjusting to life with a baby can be a wonderful but often overwhelming experience. The City of Boroondara offers many support services and activities where you can meet other parents like you in the area.
Things to do
- Use our immunisation calculator tool to add scheduled vaccinations to your calendar
- Get extra help with breastfeeding, sleeping and settling or parenting, learn about parent's groups, and go to your key age and stage appointments with your Maternal and Child Health nurse. Find out more on our Maternal and Child Health service page.
- Learn about postnatal depression and how it can affect you and your family on our Postnatal and Antenatal depression page
- Look into childcare for your baby if you need it. Childcare places are in high demand in our area. You can use our Childcare page to see what services are nearby.
- Download the Victorian Government's free Maternal and Child Health app from the Better Health Victoria website
- Find an approved rear-facing child restraint using the child restraint tool on the Child car seats website. You can also find help to properly fit your child's restraint or booster seat on the VicRoads Child restraint fitting station page.
Parenting resources
- Go to a parent's information session. Information about these session is available on our Activities for parents and caregivers page.
- Join the Boroondara Library Service to access books and online resources on pregnancy, parenting, health and learning. Go to our Membership page to find out more, or you can contact our expert staff using our online Ask a librarian form for help finding what you need.
- Visit our Reading advice for babies 3 to 12 months page to find book recommendations and programs.
- Find evidence-based information and advice for parents of babies 3 to 12 months at the Raising Children website.
Introducing solids
Other services in Boroondara
- Camberwell Multiple Birth Association: support for parents of twins, triplets or more.
- Boroondara Family Network: support for parents with babies and very young children who are suffering stress in parenting.
Activities in Boroondara
- Get out to an activity for you and your baby at one of our libraries.
- Go to a parent information session.
- Join a playgroup.
- Become a member of a toy library.
- Visit a playground.
- Join a walking group
- Go to swimming lessons for infants at one of our local pools to introduce your baby to the water from 6 months.
Find more activities for you and your baby in our searchable directory of activities for families.
Support and advice
- Maternal and Child Health service (MCH): email [email protected] or call 9278 4606.
After hours
- Maternal and Child Health Line: free advice from a qualified MCH nurse for children from birth to school age, 24-hours a day, 7 days a week. Call 13 22 29.
- Parentline: free counselling and advice for parents and carers of children from birth to 18 years old, 8am to midnight, 7 days a week. Call 13 22 89.
- The National Breastfeeding Helpline: breastfeeding knowledge and help with overcoming common hurdles, 24-hours a day, 7 days a week. Call 1800 686 268.
Find health information
You can use the Victorian Government's Better Health Channel tool below to find quality assured, reliable, up-to-date and easy to understand health information on babies and toddlers.*
*The Better Health Channel website is managed and authorised by the Department of Health and Human Services, State Government of Victoria, Australia. The site complies with the HONcode standard for trustworthy health information.
Content on the City of Boroondara website is provided for information purposes only and is not intended as medical advice. This information is not intended to replace advice from your doctor or other registered health professional.
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If your situation is an emergency, you should always call 000 or go to an emergency department at a hospital.